Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 646 · Decided 30 October 1995
Deokinandan and ORS. v. Surajpal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 646 · [1995] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 558
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9869/1995
- Decided
- 30 October 1995
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, B.L. HANSARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Refo1ms Act, 1951. S.331-Cognizance of suits-Held, Civil Cowt lacked jurisdiction to go C into the question of title in respect of land govemed by the Act. Practice and Procedure : Counter affidavit-Not filed even after Court's order that right to file counter affidavit foifeited E F In a civil suit in respect of the land, governed by the U.P. Zamin.dari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1951, the defendant raised an abjection before the Civil Court that the suit was barred by provisions of S331 of the Act. The Trial Court as well as the appellate
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