Disputes regarding right to cultivate land

Disputes regarding right to cultivate land. (1) Any person claming to be the cultivating tenant of any land, if prevented or obstructed from cultivating that land, may apply to the Deputy Tahsildar for an order that he is entitled to cultivate the land.

(2) The Deputy Tahsildar shall, or receipt of an application under sub-section (1) and after such enquiry as he seems necessary and after issue of notice to the opposite party, by order, decide whether the applicant is entitled to cultivate the land, and if the applicant is entitled to cultivate, and is not in possession of, the land, the Deputy Tahsildar shall also restore him cultivate that land.

(3) In any suit relating to any land in respect of which an application has been presented before the Deputy Tahsildar under sub-section (1) instituted by the opposite party after the date of such application, the court shall not grant an injunction restraining the applicant from cultivating the land, till the final decision in such suit.