Ramchandra Singh Yadav v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
CWJC No.10297 of 2024, High Court of Judicature at Patna, decided 18-07-2024 by K. Vinod Chandran, CJ (with Partha Sarthy, J). Four petitioners from Darbhanga district versus the State of Bihar, Bihar Religious Trust Board, district officials and five private respondents. PIL-type writ petition dismissed because an alternate efficacious remedy exists under the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act, 1956; PIL and invocation of extraordinary writ power held unsustainable in such circumstances; liberty granted to pursue the 1956 Act route; no observation made on merits or on petitioners' locus standi, reserved for the Appropriate Authority under the Act of 1956. No precedent cases cited; no quantum involved.
What did the court decide?
Liberty to the petitioners to proceed under the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act, 1956; dismissal expressly without any observation on merits or on the petitioners' locus standi.