The Allahabad High Court recently quashed criminal proceedings initiated under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984, holding that a Village Development Officer/Village Secretary is not a “revenue authority” and is therefore not competent to initiate such action. The ruling came from a single-judge bench of Justice Saurabh Srivastava, who set aside a
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