Writ petition sought compensation for land allegedly acquired for a railway line. The State showed one plot was never acquired and no claim was ever made for the other plot, compensation being deposited in court. With no appearance for the petitioner, the Court found no claim made out and dismissed the petition for non-prosecution.
This page shows the compact analysis of this judgement. The full analysis — procedural history, issue-by-issue holdings with ratio and obiter, advocates, and paragraph-level evidence for every claim — is being added to the record in batches and will appear here when this judgement has been through it.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.19538 of 2018
======================================================
Arvind Kumar Pandey Son of Late Laxmi Kant Pandey, Resident of VillageAmawan, P.S.- Asthawan, District- Nalanda.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
... ... Respondent/s
====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : None For the State : Mr. Raj Kishore Roy, GP-18 ======================================================
CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY
ORAL ORDER
5 05-01-2026
No one appears on behalf of the petitioner though State is present.
“for issuance of an appropriate writ/writs, order/orders, direction/directions, to the respondents to pay compensation to the petitioner against the land acquired by for mauja Amawan thana no. 220, plot no. 2578, khata no. 03 area-62.5 decimals and plot no. 2424 Area 5- 3/4 decimals which has acqauired for Railway line Daniawan- Barbigha Broad gauge line under Eastern Central Railway, but till today the
Patna High Court CWJC No.19538 of 2018(5) dt.05-01-2026 2/2
petitioner has not been paid compensation by the land Acquisition Department.”
(Rajiv Roy, J)
vinayak/-
U
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the petitioner was entitled to compensation for land allegedly acquired for the Daniawan-Barbigha broad gauge railway line despite no recorded claim over the plot.
Arvind Kumar Pandey Son of Late Laxmi Kant Pandey
The State Of Bihar
The District Magistrate, Nalanda
The Circle Officer, Asthawan
Rajiv Roy
As recorded by the court registry
Judgements on the same questions, provisions and authorities, from every court
