The Rashtrapati Bhawan declined to comment on the issue. Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi also said that he would not be in a position to react without knowing the details of the case.
A revenue court here has ordered that the names of relatives of President Pratibha Patil, including her husband Devisingh Shekhawat, to be deleted from the ownership of a disputed piece of agricultural land in a village near here.
The order by Sub Divisional Officer (SDO) Ashok Amankar, in quasi-judicial authority, came on a petition by one Kishore Bansod, who had claimed that the Shekhawat clan had allegedly got their names included in the land title.
The Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi declined to comment on the issue. Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi also said that he would not be in a position to react without knowing the details of the case.
In a recent order, the SDO had directed that the entry relating to the names of six persons belonging to the Shekhawat family be deleted from the official land records.
The six respondents in the case include, president's husband Devisingh Shekhawat, five of his relatives, the local Revenue Inspector and village 'Talathi', a lower-level official who maintains land records.
In his complaint filed in 2008, Bansod had alleged that Shekhawat and others had usurped his farmland at their native Chandrapur village after tampering with the land records, Bansod's lawyer Sunil Gajbhiye said.
Amankar allowed the appeal of the farmer and annulled the changes made in the land records made by the Block Officer in respect of the disputed land -- Survey No. 31/1F, Group No. 19, measuring 1.02 hectare, effected on October 5, 2007. He ordered the land to be remeasured and restored to the rightful owner.
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