Revisional order already quashed cannot be confirmed; fresh hearing and de novo reconsideration are required on remand.

A revisional authority cannot confirm an earlier revisional order that has already been quashed by the High Court, because such an order ceases to exist in law. After remand, the authority must decide the revision afresh in accordance with law and after giving the affected party an opportunity of hearing; it cannot dispose of the matter by simply repeating the set-aside order. On that basis, the impugned order was held invalid and quashed, and the matter was remitted for de novo consideration.

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Issues: Whether the revisional authority could lawfully confirm an earlier revisional order that had already been quashed by the High Court and whether the impugned order, made without a fresh disposal on remand, was valid.

Analysis: Once the earlier order had been set aside in writ proceedings, it ceased to survive in law and could not be treated as an existing order capable of confirmation. On remand, the authority was required to decide the revision afresh according to law and after affording an opportunity of hearing, and not to dispose of the matter by merely reiterating the quashed order. The impugned order was therefore vitiated because it rested on a non-existent order rather than on a fresh adjudication.

Conclusion: The impugned order was invalid and was quashed. The matter was remitted for de novo consideration with an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner.

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