Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 116 -- Application for partition - Revenue Officer only to see whether a prima facie case regarding question of title - Suit by co-sharer in Civil Court claiming ownership in common purposes land due to adverse possession - No prima facie case regarding question of title - No question of holding up partition proceedings...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 158(2)(xiv) -- Prohibition not applicable to claims of persons other than defaulter - Agreement entered into between Co-operative Society through its Secretary and Department of Government - Recovery of amount from Secretary of Co operative Society - Secretary of Co operative Society would be a defaulter if : (i) agreement entered..........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Rules, 1953 -- Rule 11 - Proceedings before Revenue Officers - Provisions of Order 23 Rule 3 Civil Procedure Code not applicable - Compromise by counsel before Court not required to be in writing - Civil Procedure Code, Order 23 Rule 3...........
Punjab Gram Panchayat Act, 1992, Section 4 -- Suit in Civil Court for declaration that Director Panchayats had no authority to take land belonging to Gram Panchayat Kohar and give it to Gram Panchayat Keharpura and also subsequent orders passed by Revenue Authorities to implement this order were illegal, void, without jurisdiction and not binding - No notification..........
Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, Section 77, 100(3) -- Whether or not relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties- Civil Court can decide - After deciding that there is relationship of landlord and tenant - No jurisdiction with Civil Court to pass order of ejectment of tenant - Section 100(3) applicable only where suit of a class mentioned in Section 77 determined by..........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, Section s, 18, 25, 5, 5A - - Plea that purchase orders be set aside as surplus area case wrongly decided - Tenants having become owners of land as purchase applications decided more than 15 years ago and not only first instalment but whole of purchase price having been paid by tenants - Dispute now becomes a question of title..........
Punjab Land Records Manual -- Para 7.30 - Correction by way of entry of "Shehat Indraj" in Jamabandi in respect of earlier mutation which got reflected in a number of Jamabandis - Not competent - Aggrieved party should approach Civil Court - Entry made in Jamabandi should not be varied through mutations except for a clerical error - Any substantial modification of entry in..........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 34, 35, 36, 37 -- Mutation of inheritance - Dispute as to legitimacy of claimant - Evidence produced having many serious discrepancies - Decision about legitimacy of claimant a complicated one - Correct course for Revenue Officers - To stay their hands and leave matter for a Civil Court of competent jurisdiction to decide complicated..........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953, Section 14A(i) -- Ejectment application for failure to pay rent - Tenants appeared as their own witnesses and made statements on oath that they had paid batai (rent) to land-lady - Land-lady did not appear in witness-box and controvert the assertion and only general attorney of land-lady stepped into witness-box - Plea that a..........
Punjab Land Records Manual -- Para 9.9 - Correction of Khasra Girdawari entries during pendency of civil suit between the parties - Order of Revenue Authorities cannot be taken into consideration in civil proceedings - Evidence adduced by parties in connection with truthfulness or falsity of Khasra Girdawari entries - To be assessed independently by Civil Court - Khasra..........
