Allahabad HC Directs DMs in UP & Uttarakhand to Erect Pillars to Mark State Territory | Lucknow Information

BIJNOR: Allahabad excessive courtroom has directed the DMs of Bijnor and Haridwar districts in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, respectively, to erect pillars to demarcate the state territories by January 23.
A bench of justice SD Singh and justice ManjiveShukla handed the order whereas listening to a petition filed by a farmer Gurpreet Singh, who said that he owned price Rs 10 crore agricultural land in Bijnor, near Uttarakhand’s border.
He was issued a discover by the Uttarakhand authorities that claimed the land belonged to the state and he was illegally occupying it. He was requested to take away the “encroachment” following which he filed a plea within the excessive courtroom.
There was a longstanding dispute over the land between Bijnor and Haridwar districts because the state of Uttarakhand was carved out in 2000. A number of such circumstances involving farmers have come to gentle earlier as nicely.
He urged the courtroom to problem instructions for demarcation of the borderof the 2 states by the geographical division of the Survey of India together with income officers from Bijnor and Haridwar districts.
The farmer’s counsel argued that the choice to mark the boundary can’t be made solely by the Haridwar DM or the SDM of Laksar tehsil within the Haridwar district.
Listening to each the events, the courtroom stated the “dispute is that some a part of the land owned by Gurpreet falls solely inside UP’s boundary and he neither owns, neither is in possession of any land in Uttarakhand. But, on account of doubts over boundaries of the 2 states, the petitioner claims, “there was unlawful interference of the Uttarakhand authorities over his land”.
The courtroom stated that no helpful goal can be served by involving the businesses of the Union of India as UP’s standing counsel and Uttarakhand’s deputy advocate basic are in settlement that the difficulty could be resolved by the income authorities of the 2 states. So, the DMs of Haridwar and Bijnor could designate a sub-divisional Justice of the Peace and a income workforce to go to Himmatpur Bela village underneath Bijnor tehsil and Bijnor district for marking the order, it stated.
The courtroom stated the “train shall be carried out within the presence of the petitioner and after its completion, if required, pillars could also be set as much as demarcate any portion of the disputed land”.