1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.4138 OF 2009 Mahadeo Babu Patil & ors ..Petitioners V/s. The Collector, Kolhapur & ors ..Respondents Mr.A.B.Borkar, Advocate, for the petitioners Mr.P.P.Kakade, Assistant Government Pleader, for respondent Nos.1 to 3 CORAM : S.B.MHASE & R.M.SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2009 P.C. . The petitioners are the Project Affected persons and are seeking allotment of land. One Mr.Suraj Rohidas Waghmare holding the additional charge of District Resettlement Officer, Kolhapur has filed an Affidavit on behalf of the respondents and in paragraph five of the said Affidavit it has been mentioned that the old record would be scrutinized and if, it is found that no land has 2 been alloted to the petitioners then in that event the land would be alloted to the petitioners and the said scrutiny would be completed within a period of three months. Statement is accepted. However, we direct that while making the scrutiny, the concerned Officer shall find out that who was the holder of the land at the time of acquisition so that the land will have to be alloted taking into consideration holding of the said person. If the said person is dead then in that event, the land should be alloted to the legal representatives of the holder but each of the legal representative shall not be treated as a separate person entitled to land. 2. With these observations, the above Writ Petition is disposed of. ( R.M.SAVANT, J.) ( S.B.MHASE, J. )