Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 203 · Decided 14 March 2024
Baban Balaji More (Dead) BY LRS. & Others v. Babaji Hari Shelar (Dead) BY LRS. & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 203 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 593
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8356/2017
- Decided
- 14 March 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, SANJAY KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Whether the Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 had application to the subject Watan lands; whether the appellants (legal heirs of the original Watandar) were right in proceeding against the tenants u/ss.5, 11 & Offices Act, 1874 after the death of the original Watandar, in February/March, 1958; whether the tenancy in question was lawfully subsisting on Tillers' Day and were the tenants entitled to exercise their right of statutory purchase of the tenanted agricultural Watan lands.
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