Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 124 · Decided 27 April 1972
Kannan Devan Hills Produce Company LTD. v. The State of Kerala and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 124 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 356
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 44/1971
- Decided
- 27 April 1972
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA, HANS RAJ KHANNA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 31A
Headnote
B Kannan Devan Hills (Resumption of Lands) Act, 1971 (Kera/a Act 5 of 1971)-Comvetency of State legislature to enact-Sections 4 & 5 of Act do not fa// under entry 52 List I but under entries 18 of List II and .i2 of List III In Seventh Schedule of Constitution-Act whether has pro­ tection whether °'estate', The petitioner was in possession of an area of approximately 1,27,904 acres, commonly known as the 'Concession Area' lying contiguously in the Kannan Devan Hills village. The concession was firs.t given to the predecessor-in-interest of the appellant company in 1877 by
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