1 S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.5656/2007 (Manohar Singh Rathore Vs. State & Ors.) Date of order :: 12.03.2008 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL KRISHAN VYAS Mr. B.M. Bohra, for the petitioner. Mr. O.P. Boob, Dy. Govt. Counsel. Heard learned counsel for the parties. By way of filing the present writ petition, the petitioner has challenged order Annexure-8 dated 21.8.2007 whereby Rs.5,50,000/- was ordered to be recovered from him. The petitioner has raised so many grounds before this Court while challenging the said order. After hearing both the parties, learned Single Judge of this Court has passed interim order on 06.09.2007 whereby it was ordered that “in the meanwhile, the respondents shall not adopt any coercive steps against the petitioner for recovery of impugned demand of land tax”. In the interest of justice, I deem it just and proper to grant opportunity to the petitioner to file his representation before the assessing authority 2 within a period of one month from today and raise all his grounds, which are taken in this writ petition. Upon filing the said representation, the respondent No.3 – assessing authority may fix a date and decide the matter by passing speaking order within a period of one month thereafter after providing opportunity of hearing to the petitioner. Till then, the stay order granted by this Court vide order dated 6.9.2007 shall remain in force. With the aforesaid observation/direction, the writ petition is disposed of. (GOPAL KRISHAN VYAS), J. Arun/-