“The respondent, on the basis of alleged unregistered Hukumnama alleged to be executed by the exlandlord in the year 1931, in respect to appellants’ land stated above, have reportedly filed a regular title suit in the court of Munsif III Gaya for declaration of their title and assailed the title of Panchu Nat, the father o the vendors of appellant and the said title suit on transfer of Additional Munsif Court Gaya being no. 8/2009, 20/2004 is still pending for evidence. There is nothing on record to suggest that he order of the Assistant Settlement Officer passed in 1973 and 1976 was ever challenged at the competent level. The appellants have also been paying rent for the instant land. Even if the issues and the reliefs sought in the aforesaid civil suit were, for the sake of argument, different, the respondents still can seek its adjudication in a competent civil court. The civil court is the appropriate forum for deciding complex matters of title. In the ruling mentioned in PLJR 2012(3) page 214 it has been clearly held that the BLDR Act does not oust the jurisdiction of Civil Court in appropriate cases.”
