IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10656 of 2010 1. MINTA DEVI W/O SRI NARESH BHAGAT R/O VILL.- CHARAN @ CHAURAN KALA, P.S.- MALI, DISTT.- AURANGABAD 2. PRASAD CHAUDHARY @ RAM PRASAD CHAUDHARY S/O TAPESHWAR CHAUDHARY R/O VILL.- CHARAN @ CHAURAN KALA, P.S.- MALI, DISTT.- AURANGABAD Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, AURANGABAD 3. THE S.D.O., AURANGABAD 4. THE D.C.L.R., AURANGABAD 5. THE ANCHALADHIKARI, BLOCK- NABINAGAR, DISTT.- AURANGABAD For the Petitioner: Amar Nath Singh, Adv. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. For the State of Bihar: Shivam Singh (AC to AAG-1). ----------- 3/ 05/05/2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners are aggrieved by a show cause notice dated 28.10.2009 and 13.2.2010 issued to them under the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act requiring them to vacate the premises in question. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that they are not encroachers but are settlees under a Basgit Parcha granted to them and are in possession for long years. It cannot be stated that the show cause notice is without jurisdiction. The rest is the defence of the petitioners. Let the petitioners file their reply to the show cause notice whereafter matters are required to be considered in accordance with law and disposed off by a 2 reasoned and speaking order displaying full application of mind to all questions of fact and law preferably within a maximum period of four months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The application is disposed. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)