Rajendra Prasad Gupta @ Rajendra Gupta v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court; CWJC No.1264 of 2023; Rajendra Prasad Gupta @ Rajendra Gupta v. State of Bihar & others; decided 12-11-2024 by Justice Mohit Kumar Shah; writ petition for quashing Encroachment Case No.16 of 2022-23 (Circle Officer, Purnea East) disposed off because, per paragraph 7 of the District Magistrate, Purnea counter affidavit dated 11.11.2024, the encroachment proceedings were dropped qua petitioner after joint-committee verification; earlier Encroachment Case No.20 of 1995-96 had been dropped by order dated 13.07.1995 finding petitioner owner of the land; petitioner conceded no subsisting grievance; no merits decided; no statutes or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
The Court proceeded on the position that, the encroachment proceedings having been dropped qua the petitioner as recorded in paragraph no.7 of the counter affidavit, the petitioner had no subsisting grievance.