IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14861 of 2006 GULABMANI DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 3. 5.8.2008. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the private Respondent No.4. 2. It appears private Respondent No.4 purchased the lands in question from his vendor Braj Nandan Sahay by a registered sale deed dated 6.7.2005 and thereafter applied for mutation. The mutation application was registered on 18.9.2005. Appreciating the fact that the vendor Braj Nandan Sahay was earlier mutated in the revenue records with respect to the lands in question, the name of private Respondent No.4 was mutated in the revenue records on the basis of the sale deed dated 6.7.2005 in a Lok Adalat. Petitioner herein assailed the mutation allowed in favour of private Respondent No. 4 by filing an application before the Deputy Collector, Land Reforms, which application has been rejected under the impugned order dated 18.9.2005, holding that as the mutation was allowed in a Lok Adalat on the basis of the revenue records earlier mutating the lands in question in favour of the vendor Braj Nandan Sahay, the appeal against the said order is not maintainable. 3. Having heard counsel for the parties as also having perused the order passed by the Circle Officer in a Lok Adalat as also the order of the Deputy Collector, Land Reforms, I am satisfied that the mutation has been allowed in favour of private Respondent No. 4 on the basis of the revenue records as also the sale deed dated - 2 - 6.7.2005, as such, I do not see any illegality in the order passed by the Circle Officer mutating the lands in question in favour of private Respondent No.4. Petitioner, being not a party to the mutation proceeding, is at liberty to question the mutation made in favour of the private respondent on the basis of the deed of gift executed in her favour by her husband prior to the execution of the sale deed dated 6.7.2005 by taking appropriate proceedings in the civil court of competent jurisdiction. 4. This writ application is, accordingly disposed of. Rajesh/ (V.N.Sinha, J.)