Dismissed
Nagma Khatun v. The State of Bihar
Patna HCCWJC/2567/2023
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The High Court of Patna dismissed a PIL filed in the Civil Writ Jurisdiction. The petitioner sought removal of encroachments on public lands via PIL. The court held that the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act, 1956 prescribes a fair statutory procedure and a PIL cannot bypass this mandated remedy to deal with individual encroachment issues.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition was dismissed with a direction that the statutory remedy under the Act should be pursued by the alleged encroachers.