The Uttarakhand High Court has dismissed a criminal petition filed by the Bengal Engineering Group and Center (BEG Center), Roorkee, in the ongoing legal dispute over a public road passing through the Roorkee Cantonment area, ruling in favour of local villagers. There has been a long-standing legal dispute between residents of Bhangeri village in Uttarakhand's Roorkee district and the BEG Center over a road through the cantonment area. The BEG Center had closed this public road by installing a gate. A single bench of Justice Pankaj Purohit said the disputed plot, Khasra No. 710, is recorded in revenue records as a ''Gauhar Rasta'', meaning a public road, and restricting public movement on it is unreasonable. The BEG Center is a training institution of the Indian Army, which imparts various

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