RANCHI, India, Jan. 23 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Dec. 22:
I.A. No. 10947 of 2025
1. For the reasons stated in the application, we find sufficient cause to condone the delay of 335 days that has crept up in filing of the appeal.
2. Ordered accordingly.
3. I.A. No. 10947 of 2025 stands allowed and disposed of.
L.P.A. No. 580 of 2025
4. We really wonder why the State has come up in this appeal given the fact that names of the predecessors-in-interest of the respondents herein have been standing in the revenue entries since 1964-65, yet the mutation in their favour came to be cancelled.
5. It is settled proposition of law that there is a presumption of truth attached with the correctness of long-standing revenue entries and convincing evidence is necessary to be produced to negate the presumption attached to such entries. Reference in this regard can conveniently be made to a decision of this Court in Tarun Kumar Datta v. State of Jharkhand & Ors, reported in 2022(1) JBCJ 253 (HC).
6. It is not a case where the rights of the State have been foreclosed for all times to come, rather, the learned Writ Court has left it open to the State to question the title of writ petitioners by resorting to civil proceedings before civil court of competent jurisdiction.
7. Here again it needs to be noted that it is more than settled that it is only the Civil and not the Revenue Court can decide the question of title.
8. In such circumstances, we find no infirmity much less illegality in the order passed by the learned Writ Court. Consequently, there is no merit in this appeal and the same is, accordingly, dismissed.
9. Pending application(s), if any, shall also stand disposed of.
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