Court No. - 21
Case :- FIRST APPEAL No. - 472 of 2005 Appellant :- State Of U.P. Through Collector Respondent :- Balraj Singh And Others Counsel for Appellant :- Govt. Adv.,S.C.
Hon'ble Dinesh Pathak,J.
Heard Sri Indra Bhan Singh, learned Standing Counsel for the appellant.
Instant land acquisition appeal has been preferred on behalf of the State challenging the award dated 23.04.1999 passed by the First Additional District Judge, Bijnor.
It is submitted by the learned Standing Counsel for the appellant that the valuation of the present appeal is less than two lacs, therefore, by virtue of Government Notification dated 13th October, 2016, the present appeal is liable to be dismissed as withdrawn.
The valuation of instant appeal, for the purposes of court fees and jurisdiction of this Court, as shown in the memo of appeal, is Rs. 28,376.85 P.
Learned counsel for the appellant has drawn attention of the Court to the order dated 17.10.2016 passed by the coordinate bench of this Court in Appeal No. 29 of 2014, wherein appeal has been dismissed in light of the monetary limit fixed by the Government Notification dated 13th October, 2016. For ready reference order dated 17.10.2016 is being quoted herein below:-
“Heard Sri Vijay Bahadur Singh, learned Advocate General assisted by Smt. Sangeeta Chandra, learned Chief Standing Counsel-III for the appellant and learned counsel for the respondents.
An affidavit of Sri Shree Nath Ram, Deputy Secretary, Law, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow has been filed in First Appeal No. 29 of 2014. In para 3 and 4 of the aforesaid affidavit it has been stated as under:
"3. That, after due deliberation the Government has issued a notification amending the State Litigating Policy, paragraphs 4.6 thereof with respect to filing/ contesting of appeals in matters of small valuation relating to Land Acquisition on 13.10.2016. A true copy of the Notification issued on 13.10.2016 is being filed herewith and marked as Annexure No. 1 to this affidavit.
4. That, it is in the interest of justice that the instant affidavit be taken on record, and this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to pass such other and further order which may deem just and proper in the facts of the case."
The notification/ Government Order No. lk0&1368@lkr&U;k;& 1&16&75@2010 dated 13.10.2016 filed as Annexure No. 1 to the affidavit amending the State Litigation Policy by inserting para 4 (N N%) is as under:
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¼jaxukFk ik.Ms;½ izeq[k lfpo Valuation of this appeal is Rs. 9587/-.
In view of the decision taken by the State Government as afore quoted, this appeal is dismissed for reasons that valuation of the appeal is below the monetary limit fixed by the State Government. However, dismissal of this appeal shall not come in the way of the State Government to contest appeal of higher valuation as provided in the afore quoted Government Order. Liberty is also granted to the State Government to file a recall application for recall of this order of dismissal of appeal on the ground of smallness of valuation, in case any technical objection is raised by other claimants for dismissal of some other appeal of higher valuation filed by the State Government and arising from the same acquisition.”
In this conspectus as above, instant appeal is dismissed as withdrawn in pursuance of Government Notification dated October 13, 2016.
Order Date :- 29.10.2021 Pkb/