Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 962 · Decided 27 August 2019
Chandrakant Baban Motkari & ORS. v. Gotiram Laxman Motkari (D) BY LRS. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 962 · [2019] 11 S.C.R. 780
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2390/2011
- Decided
- 27 August 2019
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, K.M. JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948: ss. 32 and 85 - Rights of the tillers - Dispute between the legal heirs of two deceased brothers, N and L - N and his two uncles took land on lease for cultivation by execution of Kabuliyatnama, L was an attesting witness to the Kabuliyatnama, and prior to execution he had obtained a Government job as a peon - Thereafter, Act of 1948 was passed and in terms thereof, from 1.4.1957, tenants who were tilling the land were deemed to have purchased the land from the owners -
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