The State Of West Bengal Secretary Department Of Land And Land Reforms And Writers Building, Kolkata vs. Bikram Besra

JITEM NO.44 COURT NO.9 SECTION XVI S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No(s).12367/2014 (From the judgement and order dated 12/03/2014 in WPLRT No.43/2014 of The HIGH COURT OF CALCUTTA) STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS. Petitioner(s) VERSUS SWAPAN PAL & ORS. Respondent(s) (With appln(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned Judgment and exemption from filing O.T. and with prayer for interim relief) Date: 09/05/2014 This Petition was called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JAGDISH SINGH KHEHAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE R.K. AGRAWAL For Petitioner(s) Mr. Anip Sachthey, Adv. Mr.Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv. For Respondent(s) UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Learned counsel for the petitioners has invited our attention to Section 57B of the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act which divests jurisdiction from Civil Court, to entertain issues pertaining inter alia to correction of entries in revenue records. It is submitted that the direction of the High Court in the impugned order, clearly amounts to violation of the aforesaid provision. Issue notice. Operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed till

further orders.

(Satish K.Yadav) (Phoolan Wati Arora) Court Master Assistant Registrar