Jodhpur, Sept. 3 -- The high court has directed the constitution of an "expert committee" comprising senior officers of the revenue, forest and panchayati raj departments, and to decide within six weeks the question of whether land marked as nari/pokhar can be recognised as a water body, a lawyer familiar with the proceedings said on Tuesday. A bench of justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that the question "cannot be adjudicated under Article 226" and must be determined through expert assessments of old records and the ground reality, while disposing a writ petition by a firm seeking passage over khasras 925, 926 and 927 in Bayana, Bharatpur, to access an area over which it held a mining lease. The principal secretary, revenue, had earlier refused sanction as two of the khasras (925 and 927) marked pasture and the other marked a pokhar. The petitioner argued that no water body exists on the site whereas the state argued that the area had pasture, a seasonal catchment, and cited recent Amrit Sarovar funding near the site....