The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday directed the Punjab government to decide within two months on a representation filed by a resident of Siswan village in Mohali district, who has alleged that his land was wrongly classified as forest despite being under habitation since the 1970s.

The directions were issued by a division bench led by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu. The bench also comprising Justice Sanjiv Berry was hearing a petition filed by 72-year-old Jeet Mohinder Singh, who challenged the application of the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 (PLPA), and the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, to his non-forest land.

Jeet Mohinder, a recorded shareholder in Khasra numbers 734 (Abadi Deh) and 732 (Gair Mumkin Abadi), submitted that his land was never classified as forest in revenue record

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