Civil Writ Petition No. 14267 of 2007 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 14267 of 2007 Date of Order: 29.07.2010 Balbir Singh ....Petitioner Versus Financial Commissioner, Revenue Haryana and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIVE BHALLA Present: Mr. Suvineet Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. D.Khanna, Addl. A.G.,Haryana and Ms. Shruti Jain, AAG, Haryana, for respondents No.1 to 4 Mr. Vikas Suri, Advocate for respondents no.5 to 8 RAJIVE BHALLA, J. (Oral) The petitioner prays for issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the orders dated 02.06.2000, 14.10.2005, 26.04.2007 and 02.08.2007, passed by the Assistant Collector Ist Grade, Matenhail, District Jhajjar, District Revenue Officer-cum- Collector, Jhajjar, the Commissioner, Rohtak Division, Rohtak and the Financial Commissioner, and Secretary to Government, Haryana, Chandigarh, respectively. I have heard counsel for the parties and am satisfied that the Financial Commissioner has committed an error of jurisdiction, while dismissing the revision on the ground that as a Sanad Takseem has been drawn up, revenue authorities have no power to re-open partition proceedings. While considering the powers of Civil Writ Petition No. 14267 of 2007 -2- Financial Commissioner, under Section 16 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, a Division Bench of this Court has held in Amar Khan and others v. State of Punjab and others, 2009(1) R.C.R. (Civil) 741, that the drawing up of a Sanad Takseem does not bar the Financial Commissioner from considering a challenge to partition proceedings. The writ petition is partly allowed, the order dated 02.08.2007, is set aside and the matter is remitted to the Financial Commissioner, Haryana, Chandigarh, to decide the revision afresh and in accordance with law, within three months from receipt of a certified copy of this order. July 29, 2010 (RAJIVE BHALLA) nt JUDGE