The case arose out of a dispute among brothers over co-shared land in Ayodhya. (Image generated using AI) Allahabad High Court news: The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a plea seeking enforcement of an administrative order in a private land dispute, while slamming the district magistrate, Ayodhya , for issuing directions that the court said amounted to assuming powers vested exclusively in civil courts. A bench of Justices Alok Mathur and Amitabh Kumar Rai held that the district magistrate had no authority to pass an injunction order or decide the dispute between private individuals. The court deprecated the ‘practice’ of passing orders in private disputes instead of referring the matter to the court of competent jurisdiction. “The District Magistrate does not have any power to pass any order of injunction or decide the dispute between private individuals which power is vested exclusively in civil courts,” the Allahabad High Court said in its order dated April 15.…