Supreme Court · 1989 INSC 133 · Decided 19 April 1989
Dibyasingh Malana v. State of Orissa & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1989 INSC 133 · [1989] 2 S.C.R. 604
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2436/1989
- Decided
- 19 April 1989
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, N.D. OJHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 39(b)
Headnote
' 'r· Orissa Land Reforms AGl, 1960: Section 37(b): 'family'- ~- Definition of_..:.'Major married son' whether entitled to benefit of· · statute. Proceedings were initiated in •1974 under the Orissa Land Reforms Act, 1960 for declaration of surplus land of the appellants. their families in the year 1965 the land in the ancestral properties which fell in their share could not be clubbed with those of their father. This contention was not accepted on the definition of the term "family" contained in section 37(b) of the Act. Such of the major married sons
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