Smt. Satu vs State Of Rajasthan
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 11189/2022

1. Smt. Satu W/o Late Shri Hakim Khan, Aged About 71 Years, Caste Muslman R/o Sakadiya, Tehsil Pokaran, District Jaisalmer (Rajasthan).

2. Movle Khan S/o Late Shri Hakim Khan, Aged About 41 Years, Caste Muslman R/o Sakadiya, Tehsil Pokaran, District Jaisalmer (Rajasthan).

3. Gafoor Khan S/o Late Shri Hakim Khan, Aged About 51 Years, Caste Muslman R/o Sakadiya, Tehsil Pokaran, District Jaisalmer (Rajasthan).

----Petitioners Versus

1. State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary (Water Resources Department) Jaipur Rajasthan.

2. The Commissioner Colonization, Bikaner.

3. The Dy. Commissioner, Colonization, I.g.n.p., Nachana, Distt. Jaisalmer.

4. The Colonization Tehsildar, Nachana No. 2, Distt.

Jaisalmer.

5. The Executive Engineer, Indra Gandhi Nahar Pariyojna Phalodi, Jodhpur.

6. The Executive Engineer, Indra Gandhi Nahar Pariyojna Mohangarh, Jaisalmer.

7. The Board Of Revenue, Ajmer.

                                                                  ----Respondents


For Petitioner(s)         :     Mr. Sharwan Singh Nirban
For Respondent(s)         :     Mr. Manish Tak

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINIT KUMAR MATHUR Order 17/08/2022

Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the

petitioners owns/possesses land, yet the respondents are not

providing irrigation facilities to the petitioners in view of the

litigation though they are having interim order in their favour.

(2 of 3) [CW-11189/2022]

Learned counsel for the petitioners also contended that

number of petitions involving identical grievance have been

allowed by this Court vide judgment dated 25.01.2016 passed in a

bunch of writ petitions led by SBCWP No13842/2015 (Gulsher

Khan Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors.); which has been duly

followed by another Coordinate Bench decision dated 24.10.2017

passed in SBCWP No11508/2017 (Gemar Singh Vs. State of

Rajasthan & Ors.). Learned counsel appearing for the

respondents in principal agreed that the issue is broadly covered,

he, however, apprehended that in guise of the judgment of this

Court, the petitioner is seeking irrigation facilities to his land, even

he is not in command area.

Having heard rival submissions, the present writ petition is

disposed of in terms of the following directions given by this Court

in the cases of Gulsher Khan and Gemar Singh (supra), with

further directions that the petitioner shall be given irrigation

facilities only if, their land(s) fall in the command area.

1. The petitioners shall approach respective Executive

Engineer of IGNP Department by 15.09.2022 and furnish

documentary evidence regarding their ownership and title

of the agriculture lands, which they in their possession.

2. The petitioners, who are not having any documentary

evidence regarding their ownership and title of the said

agriculture land but their dispute regarding title of the

said agriculture land is pending either before

departmental authorities or before competent courts and

stay order is passed in their favour, can also furnish

copies of said stay order passed by the departmental

(3 of 3) [CW-11189/2022]

authorities or competent courts in their favour by

15.09.2022.

3. The respective Executive Engineer of IGNP Department

after verifying the documentary evidence, furnished by

the petitioner, or after taking into consideration the stay

order passed in his favour by the departmental

authorities or competent courts shall consider the case of

the petitioner for inclusion of his name in barabandi for

ensuing years strictly in accordance with law.

4. It is made clear that the petitioners, who are presently

getting the irrigation facilities to their agriculture fields,

will continue to get the same till next barabandi is fixed

by the IGNP Department.

5. In case land(s) for which the petitioners are claiming

irrigation facilities, do not fall in cultivable command

area, the respondents shall not be bound to provide

irrigation facility/barabandi.

The stay application also stands disposed of accordingly.

(VINIT KUMAR MATHUR),J

159-nitin/-

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