Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 188 · Decided 27 September 1966
Gulabhai Vallabhbhai Desai ETC. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 188 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 602
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 148/1962
- Decided
- 27 September 1966
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, S.M. SIKRI, V. RAMASWAMI, J.M. SHELAT (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 19, 31, 32
Headnote
Daman (Abolition of Proprietorship of Villages) Regula/ion (7 o/ 1962) and Constitution of India, 1950, Art. JI-A-Regulation, if constl­ t•tlonally valid. A B In 1962, after the annexation of the territories belonging to India from Portuguese bands, the President of India promulgated the of Villages) Regulation, 1962, for the aboli- tion of the propnetorshi{' of villages in Daman district. The five peti­ tioners, who were propnetors of lands in five villages, challenged the validity of the Regulation under Arts. 14, 19 and 31 of the Constitution, while the Union of
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