Section 97: Auction of abadi land

The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan (the "updated" English file), with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 9 of 2022.

A Rajasthan Land Revenue (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2025 (Bill No. 7 of 2025) inserts section 100-A (Government land placed at the disposal of RIICO for industrial areas) and clause (xvii-a) in section 261(2). Its Act number and assent could not be confirmed from an official source; these changes are not shown in this text.

This copy does not print the Chapter headings of the Act and contains many typing errors (for example "swim partition" and "audible estate" in section 186); the text is reproduced as printed.

In all cases where there are more than one applicant for the same piece of land in the abadi area ¹[x x x], it shall be sold to the highest bider at a public auction :

Provided that -

(a) It shall be open to the Collector to refuse the highest bid for reasons to be recorded;

(b) small strips of land adjoining existing buildings shall, with the previous sanction of the Sub-Divisional Officer, be given at the rates fixed under sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 96; and

Footnotes in the official text

1.Omitted by Sec. 11 of the Rjaasthan Act No. 33 of 1959, published in Raj. Gaz. Part IV-A, Ex.-ord., dt. 30-6-1959.

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