Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 31 · Decided 27 January 1977
Dattatraya Govind Mahajan & ORS. ETC. v. State of Maharashtra & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 31 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 790
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1132/1976
- Decided
- 27 January 1977
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, P.N. SHINGAL (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 3l(A)(l), 39, 3
Headnote
Maliaraslitra Agricultural LaT1ds (Ceiling of Holdings) Act. 1961 as ame11ded /1y the Maharashtra Agric11lt11ral Lands (LoweriT1g of Ceiling of Holdings) AmeT1dment Acts 1972 and 1975 (Maharaslitra Act~ 21 of 1975 and 47 cf 1975 and 2 of 1976)-Ss. 2(11A), 2(22), I and Sectio11 6 Principal Act and the \'Grious amending Acts, placed in tl1e Ninth Schedule­ Whether the Act as amended, in so far as it creates an artificial family unit and fixes a ceili111< on holding of land by sucli family unit is void and violatfre of the second proviso to clause
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