LUCKNOW, Sept. 14 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that the Supreme Court's directive in the Anil Rai vs. State of Bihar (2001) case, prescribing a maximum six-month period for delivery of judgements by a bench, will also apply to revenue courts.

Justice Alok Mathur passed the order on September 8 while hearing a petition filed by one Lala Singh and three others against the chairman of the Board of Revenue, Lucknow, and others.

"We see no reason as to why the said pronouncement of the Supreme Court should not be extended even to the revenue courts to decide the title disputes as a substitute to the civil courts," the court observed.

The petitioners submitted that judgment in their revision under Section 333 of...