wp3091.08 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 3091 OF 2008 Ramesh s/o Keshavrao Deshmukh ...Petitioner Versus The District Collector, Ahmednagar and others ...Respondents ..... Mr. A.N. Nagargoje, advocate for the petitioner Mr. S.V Kurundkar, Addl. G.P. For respondents ..... CORAM : SMT. NISHITA MHATRE AND M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 4TH JULY, 2011 PER COURT:- 1 The present petition has been preferred by the petitioner contending that he has been refused permission to sell his land bearing survey No. 371/2/1, situated at village Dhandarphal (Bk), Tq. Sangamner, District Ahmednagar. According to the petitioner, this land was allotted to him in the year 1968 under the provisions of Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 and Disposal of Government Lands Rules. The petitioner claims that when the land was allotted to him, it was not cultivable and he has expended a huge amount in order to make the same arable. It appears that the petitioner had sold part wp3091.08 -2- of the land in 1997. He now wants to sell the land which was retained by him. He sought permission from the Collector to alienate the land. However, that permission has been refused on the ground that it is forest land. 2 In our opinion, there is no need to interfere in the matter as in view of the provisions of Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, the petitioner will have to apply to the Central Government under Section 2 of the Act and the Rules framed thereunder for permission to alienate the land. The State has brought to our notice the fact that the land in question is a reserved forest notified in the Bombay Government Gazette dated 1.11.1888. 3 The petition is therefore, dismissed relegating the petitioner to avail of the remedies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and Indian Forest Act, 1927. ( M. T. JOSHI, J.) (SMT. NISHITA MHATRE, J.) rlj/