ORISSA HIGH COURT ISSUES JUDGEMENT ON UMESH CHANDRA MOHAPATRA AND ORS. V/S LAND REFORMS COMMISSIONER, ORISSA, CUTTACK AND ORS.

CUTTACK, India, June 13 -- Orissa High Court issued the following Judgement on May 12:

1. All these writ petitions involve common questions of fact and law and arise out of the same consolidation proceeding as well as civil dispute between the self-same parties in respect of the same property. As such, they were heard analogously and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. The petitioners in W.P.(C) No.8245 of 2003 call in question the order dated 08.07.2003 passed by the Commissioner, Land Reforms in Revision Case No.1079 of 1986 (2727 of 2003), whereby, the order of the Director of Consolidation was set aside and order of the Consolidation Officer directing recording of possession as 'Possession by illegal purchase' was resto...