...Court as well as Supreme Court in support of requirement of protection of govt. gauchar/pasture land.4. In view of such representations made by the petitioners, which are pending at the...have been made about grievances of the nature and manner in which encroachments are made over the govt. gauchar/pasture land of Village-Kaj, Tal. Kodinar, Dist. Gir Somnath. The petitioners' grievance...is also that timely action is not taken by the respondent authorities. The above representation takes support of govt. circular dated 30.12.1988 about maintenance of gauchar/pasture land and timely...

...were to be provided by the police authority is forming part of notice dated 27.04.2023. The land on which the monuments are placed by way of encroachment, is admittedly a Gauchar land and as per the settled legal position, no encroachment can be created on a Gauchar land. Moreover, as held by Hon'ble Supreme Court in...encroachment created on a gauchar land. The communication dated 27.04.2025 also refers to the assistance to be provided by State authorities for peaceful removal of encroachment. 2....1497 which is a gauchar land. Leaned advocate submitted that these monuments are not creating any obstacle to the villagers and it is not the case of land grabbing for putting the monuments. These...

...Secretary, no allotment from the Gauchar land is permissible as per the direction issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court. She submitted that the petitioner is not in a position to dispute that he holds...from the Gauchar land. There is otherwise scarcity of the Gauchar land and as pointed out by learned AGP, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has issued direction not to allot lands from the Gauchar land...the Gauchar land. Therefore, no error could be found in the impugned orders made by the Collector and the Secretary. Hence, no interference is called for in the impugned orders by this Court in exercise...

... additional 12 acres of Gauchar land. She submitted that as per the direction of Hon'ble Supreme Court as regards Gauchar land, there should not be any...further allotment from Gauchar land. 4. Learned advocate Mr.Joshi appearing for the petitioner states before the Court that if 12 acres of land of survey No.124...Panchayat shall be used only as Gauchar land for grazing cattle and shall not be put to any other use without prior permission of this Court. 7. The registry shall send the...

...petitioners however, made an application to the Collector to regularize their encroachment on the Gauchar Land which the Collector vide his order dated 09.01.2012 at Annexure-H rejected on the ground that Hon'ble Supreme Court has...fees for such purpose. However, the Collector has rejected the application of the petitioners simply on the ground that there are restrictions put by the Hon'ble Supreme Court on making any allotment from the Gauchar Land.5.... The Court on hearing learned advocate Mr. Vyas, when asked as to whether, after the Collector passed order for divesting the Gauchar Land to Gamtal, the...

.... Nangesh submitted that as against the number of cattle in the village, the gauchar land with the Gram Panchayat, is less and it will be in no breach of Government Resolution, which provides for maintaining the ratio between the gauchar land and number of cattle in village and also contrary to law laid down by this Court, of the Hon'ble Supreme Court...Municipal Corporation 2006 (2) GLR 1765, as also the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Jagpal Singh v. State of Punjab (2011) 11 SCC 396.7. In the case of Sharda Sahkari Gruh Mandali Limited v. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (supra), this Court observed in paragraph Nos. 40 & 44 as under:-40. So far as gauchar land is...public utility on the land.9. The Court however finds that in the case on hand, the land of 2 hectares from Survey No. 115 is ordered to be divested from gauchar land for mining...

...ground that in view of the order passed by the Supreme Court, gauchar land could not be allotted to the petitioners. Being aggrieved by the said order, the petitioners had preferred the revision...gauchar land, which could not be regularized in view of the observations made by the Apex Court in the case of Jagpal Singh v. State of Punjab (supra) to the effect that the...petitioners being very poor, they could not pay the said amount. He further submitted that the respondent authorities had misinterpreted the order of the Supreme Court passed in the case of Jagpal...

...that the action under Section 105 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act was contemplated in view of the several pronouncement of the Supreme Court, which indicated the usage of Gauchar land is only for the...this Court in Paragraph No. 5 of the reply, he has indicated that the Revenue Survey No. 74 is running in the revenue record as a Gauchar land and as the petitioners have encroached upon this upon...the respondent-corporation submitted that on the basis of affidavit-in-reply that the land in question is a Gauchar land and is encroached by the petitioners. 5. Attention is drawn of...

...petitioner's case was considered by Collector, Tapi in view of '2017, Rules' and ultimately it was found by the Collector, Tapi that the land for which the petitioner applied was 'Gauchar' land and, therefore, in view of decision of Honourable Supreme Page 6 of 10 Court passed...SLP (Civil) No.14222 of 2019] dated 06.09.2021, when the Hon'ble Supreme Court categorically observed that Gauchar land can be used only for the purpose for which it is permitted to be used and...consideration the fact that the land for which the petitioner applied for quarry lease was Gauchar land and, therefore, the same cannot be granted to the present petitioner for the purpose of quarry lease...

...of the property in question with the petitioner. Even if the petitioner is occupying the said property long occupation would not establish any ownership right over Gauchar land. Moreover, the communication dated 30.04.2025 was in consonance with the directives of Hon'ble Supreme Court and...the respondent dated 30.04.2025, the reference of decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court is made whereby, appropriate action is proposed to remove religious structure on public places or Gauchar land. The..., learned AGP Ms.Nalanda Acharya invited attention of this Court revenue record at page 57 to submit that the land in question is a Gauchar land and on Gauchar land, construction is not permissible. Moreover...

...25.5.2007. Further, it is to state that the demanded land falls under the Gauchar head. As per the judgement of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, the Gauchar land cannot be allotted for any other purpose...: (1) According to the oral order of the Hon'ble Gujarat High Court dated 2.11.2006, the possession of the land in question has been taken over by the Deputy Collector, Junagadh...is shortage of pasture land in proportion of the livestock. Therefore, the encroachment in question cannot be regularized. (C) A Division Bench of Hon'ble High Court...

...crematorium, the land has continued to be the Gauchar land. It is further observed that as per the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, there is prohibition in making allotment from the Gauchar land for the agricultural purpose. 4. In the case of Jagpal Singh & Ors. Versus State of Punjab & Ors. Page 3 of 7 reported in (2011)11 SCC 396, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has.... Shah for the petitioner, finds that the land of above said two survey numbers was vested with the State Government in the year 1918. The Government then vest it with the Gram Panchayat under the Gauchar...head for grazing of cattle. It appears that some portion of the land was then earmarked for crematorium, however remaining land has continued with the Panchayat under the Gauchar head. Though, the...

...has promulgated a scheme vide resolution dated 01.04.2015 with regard to regularization of the Gauchar land in the State in view of the judgment and order dated 31.09.2011 of the Supreme Court passed... C/SCA/21221/2016 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CIVIL...Mr.A.J.Yagnik appearing for the petitioner has invited the attention of this Court to the order dated 08.09.2016 passed by the Special Secretary, Revenue Department (SSRD), wherein the revision application...

...gochar.”67. What could be deduced from the observations made by the Supreme Court is that de-reservation of any Government land reserved as ‘gauchar’ must be in exceptional...Supreme Court was dealing with a regulation framed by the State of Jharkhand. In paragraph 25, the Supreme Court has observed that when ‘gauchar’ is not Government land but is village common land vesting...before resuming the ‘gauchar’ land or before utilizing any portion of ‘gauchar’ land for any public purpose. Under such circumstances, this judgment would not help Mr. Majmudar in any manner as it could not be said that the Supreme Court has...

.... Pakur Jagran Manch reported in (2011) 2 Supreme Court Cases 591, wherein the Apex Court was of the opinion that dereservation of Gauchar land should only be in exceptional...(“Mundra SEZ” for short).3. Principal objection of the petitioners to such orders passed by the State authorities is that the land earmarked for the purpose of Gauchar in the village is not...Gauchar land allotted to the Village Panchayat and decided to grant the same to respondent no. 3 for the purpose of setting up of Special Economic Zone. It is the case of the petitioners that such...

...the Collector as affirmed by the Secretary for allotment of the land from Gauchar land of the village for public utility in exercise of the powers under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India. 11. Learned Advocate Mr. Patel however relied on the decision of the Honble Supreme Court in...or other public utility on the land. 12. In fact, as observed by Honble the Supreme Court in the said judgment especially in para 22, public utility falls within the exceptions carved out for allotment or regularization of encroachment of gauchar land. Thus...2016 that the Supreme Court was dealing with a regulation framed by the State of Jharkhand. In paragraph 25, the Supreme Court has observed that when 'gauchar' is not Government land but is village...

...deduced from the observations made by the Supreme Court is that de-reservation of any Government land reserved as 'gauchar' must be in exceptional circumstances and for good reasons. Any requirement...of land for any public purpose should be met from available waste or unutilized land in the village and not 'gauchar'. Apart from this, it appears that the Supreme Court was dealing with a regulation framed by the State of Jharkhand. In paragraph 25, the Supreme Court has observed that when 'gauchar' is not Government land but...108(4) of the Panchayats Act makes the position very clear that no prior consent or permission is required of the village panchayat before resuming the 'gauchar' land or Page 32 of 35 before utilizing any portion of 'gauchar' land for any public purpose. Under such circumstances, this judgment would not help Mr.Majmudar in any manner as it could not be said that the Supreme Court has...

...could be deduced from the observations made by the Supreme Court is that de-reservation of any Government land reserved as 'gauchar' must be in exceptional circumstances and for good reasons. Any...requirement of land for any public purpose should be met from available waste or unutilized land in the village and not 'gauchar'. Apart from this, it appears that the Supreme Court was dealing with a regulation framed by the State of Jharkhand. In paragraph 25, the Supreme Court has observed that when 'gauchar' is not Government land but..., Section 108(4) of the Panchayats Act makes the position very clear that no prior consent or permission is required of the village panchayat before resuming the 'gauchar' land or before utilizing any portion of 'gauchar' land for any public purpose. Under such circumstances, this judgment would not help Mr.Majmudar in any manner as it could not be said that the Supreme Court has...

...the observations made by the Supreme Court is that de-reservation of any Government land reserved as 'gauchar' must be in exceptional circumstances and for good reasons. Any requirement of land for...any public purpose should be met from available waste or unutilized land in the village and not 'gauchar'. Apart from this, it appears that the Supreme Court was dealing with a regulation framed by the State of Jharkhand. In paragraph 25, the Supreme Court has observed that when 'gauchar' is not Government land but...Panchayats Act makes the position very clear that no prior consent or permission is required of the village panchayat before resuming the 'gauchar' land or before utilizing any portion of 'gauchar' land for any public purpose. Under such Page 34 of 36 circumstances, this judgment would not help Mr.Majmudar in any manner as it could not be said that the Supreme Court has...

.... Further, the area of lease in question is a Gauchar land and therefore the opinion of the Gram Panchayat was also asked and Gram Panchayat Page 14 of 18 has stated that the area in question falls within Gauchar land. The respondent authority has, therefore, rightly placed reliance upon the decision rendered by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in...Revisional Authority State Government was bound to renew the lease for the land in question. 20. The decision rendered by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Dharam...Gauchar land or not, is required to be considered. Thus, according to this Court, no error is committed by the respond authority while considering the aforesaid aspect also...