Bihari Patel v. State Of Chhattisgarh

NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR WPC No. 41 of 2017

1. Bihari Patel S/o Heeraram Patel, Aged About 40 Years R/o Village Jamhar, Police Station & Tahsil Pithoura, District Mahasamund, (Chhattisgarh)

2. Heeraram Patel S/o Nandlal Patel, Aged About 63 Years R/o Village Jamhar, Police Station & Tahsil Pithoura, District Mahasamund (Chhattisgarh) ---- Petitioners

Versus

1. State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of Forest, Mahanadi Bhawan, Mantralaya, New Raipur, (Chhattisgarh)

2. Sub Divisional Officer (Forest), Sub Divisional Forest Pithoura, Distt. Mahasamund, (Chhattisgarh)

3. Forest Range Officer, Forest Range, Pithoura, Distt Mahasamund, (Chhattisgarh) ---- Respondents For Petitioners :

Mr. Kishore Narayan, Advocate For State :

Mr. Sangharsh Pandey, Dy. G.A.

Hon'ble Shri Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava Order On Board 05/0 5/2017 Heard.

This petition has been filed by the petitioners aggrieved by order dated 02.12.2016 by which petitioners' application for engaging lawyer at the initial stage of proceeding under Section 52 of the Indian Forest Act was rejected. It is inform to the Court that now those proceeding are over and the petitioners have already filed appeal. Therefore, in these circumstances, no useful purpose would be served in issuing any direction. Therefore, the petition is disposed off with liberty to the petitioners to engage lawyer at the appellate stage. Sd/- (Manindra Mohan Shrivastava) J U D G E Rekha