1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION P.I.L. NO. 82 OF 2008 P.I.L. NO. 82 OF 2008 P.I.L. NO. 82 OF 2008 Bipin M. Gandhi & Ors. .. Petitioners. vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents. Mr. J.N. Pawar & N.M. Gandhi for Petitioners. Mr. P.M. Patil, AGP. for Respondent/State. CORAM: J.N. PATEL, & CORAM: J.N. PATEL, & CORAM: J.N. PATEL, & R.M. SAVANT, JJ. R.M. SAVANT, JJ. R.M. SAVANT, JJ. DATE: 4TH FEBRUARY, 2009. DATE: 4TH FEBRUARY, 2009. DATE: 4TH FEBRUARY, 2009. P.C. . The petitioners are the agriculturists of villages which come within Deolali Taluka, District Nashik. The grievance of the petitioners is that in the year 1974 a mutation entry came to be made by the Collector in the name of Devstan Inam by granting statutory title to Devstan in the year 1974 which, according to the petitioners, stems from Sanad granted by the then Ruler for the maintenance of Ram and Vanktesh (Balaji) Mandir at Nashik. The reliefs which the petitioners are seeking against the said Devstan is 2 in respect of land holders of villages Vihitgaon, Tirdshet, Belatgavhan, Sawargaon and Manoli. 2. The facts pleaded in the petition clearly show that the matter was agitated by some of the villagers before the revenue authorities as well as in the Civil Court. On representation made by the villagers, the matter was also referred to the Office of the Charity Commissioner who refused to intervene in the matter on the ground that the subject matter of mutation of agricultural land does not fall within the purview of the Charity Commissioner and rightly so. 3. A Public Interest Litigation cannot be entertained on this issue. It will be proper that the petitioners who are aggrieved by the mutation entry should agitate their matter before the revenue authority which has exclusive jurisdiction to deal with such issue. Therefore, we are not inclined to entertain this petition as a public interest litigation and dismiss the same with liberty to the petitioners to take recourse to law by approaching competent authority in the matter, subject to the Law of Limitation. (J.N. Patel, J.) (J.N. Patel, J.) (J.N. Patel, J.) 3 (R.M. Savant, J.) (R.M. Savant, J.) (R.M. Savant, J.)