India, Aug. 19 -- Polo Hotels and its director had filed a suit in 2023 under Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act before district collector seeking declaration that 15 acres (72 bighas 3 biswas 6 biswansis) in the erstwhile Chowki village did not vest in gram panchayat or the MC. They claimed ownership as successors and purchasers from the original proprietors of the village through various sale deeds. According to them, the land had been recorded since 1926 as 'shamlat deh hasab hissa mudaria paimana hakiyat', reflecting the proprietary rights of the village landowners. They alleged that after enactment of the Punjab Village Common lands laws, the land was wrongly mutated in favour of the panchayat through a mutation of April 27, 1957. However, after the repeal of those enactments, another mutation restored the land and this entry was reflected in the 1974-75 jamabandi. It was also pleaded that the predecessors of Polo Hotel were in actual cultivating possession of the land in the shamlat deh khewat as per their share and they were not in possession in excess of their share. Thus, the land does not vest in the gram panchayat. It was pleaded that Polo Hotel had applied to the director, town and country planning, for a grant of change of land use which was granted to them and was in the knowledge of the gram panchayat....