Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 115 · Decided 19 April 1972
Balmadies Plantations LTD. & ANR. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 115 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 258
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 373/1970
- Decided
- 19 April 1972
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA, HANS RAJ KHANNA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 14, 19, 31, 31A
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1951)-Artlc/e 31A 2(a) (I) and .(111)-Estate­ Fortsts In Janmam Lands-Requirement of cl. (ill) also need not be satis· fied-Agrarlan Reform-Acquisition of forests In lanmam lands­ Mere transfer of ownership or augmentation of resource~ oj the State not reform. Gudalur Janmam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1969 (Act 24 of 1969)-Constitutionality-Resettlemenl of 1926- lf has the effect of conversion into ryotwari lands. A B. c The appellants and the petitioners challenged the vires of the Gudalur Janmam Estates
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