Bhubaneswar, Nov. 4 -- The Revenue Board has brought a 43-year-old legal dispute over 62.72 acres of prime government land near Jagatpur in Cuttack to an end, dismissing a revision petition by claimants and upholding the State's ownership of the property, estimated to be worth over Rs 800 crore.
Revenue Board Member Satyabrata Sahu, in an order dated November 3, 2026, directed the Tangi-Choudwar Tahasildar to retain the land in the government records as 'Abada Jogya Anabadi'. The order upheld an earlier ruling by the Additional District Magistrate, Cuttack.
The claimants had based their case on a registered lease executed in 1945 for setting up an oil mill. However, the Board held that the lease and other documents, including a 1905 will,...