C. R. No. 2720 OF 1988. ****** The Gram Panchayat Behbalpur vs Karam Singh & others Present : Mr.P.S.Thiara, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Harnek Singh, Advocate for the respondents. ******* The dispute in this revision petition falls within a narrow compass. The petitioner-Gram Panchayat filed a suit for declaration that the suit property was reserved for common purposes and, therefore, its management and control vested in the Gram Panchayat. The respondents contested the aforementioned assertion. The learned trial Court framed issue No.3, which reads as follows :- “3. Whether civil court has got no jurisdiction to adjudicate upon the matter in controversy ? OPD Upon a consideration of respective arguments, the learned trial Court held that as the dispute would require it to return a finding, whether the land vested in the Gram Panchayat/proprietors or was shamlat deh, such a dispute could not be decided by a Civil Court and fell within the domain of the authorities under the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulations) Act, 1961. The learned trial Court, therefore, held that it had no jurisdiction to deal with the matter and directed return of the plaint for presentation before the appropriate forum. Aggrieved by the said judgment, the petitioner filed an appeal, C.R No.2720 of 1988 : 2 : which was dismissed by the learned Additional District Judge, Ropar. I have heard counsel for the parties and perused the impugned judgments. The Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulations) Act, 1961 is a complete Code in itself. Section 13 thereof prescribes the mode and manner to adjudicate disputes raised. The jurisdiction of civil courts to entertain such disputes is explicitly barred by the aforementioned Act. In this view of the matter, as the impugned judgments do not suffer from an error of jurisdiction or of law, the revision petition is dismissed with no order as to costs. ( RAJIVE BHALLA ) February 06, 2008. JUDGE `kk'