Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 131 · Decided 1 August 1974
Kaviraj Basudevanand v. Mahant Harihar Gir (Dead) & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 131 · [1975] 1 S.C.R. 590
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1709/1967
- Decided
- 1 August 1974
- Bench
- P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Bihar Land Refonns Act, 1950, ss. 9, JO and 12-Scope o(. The appellant's predecessor, who was one of the interme.diaries of certain vjllages filed .a- suit for, partition and a preliminary decree v.'as passed therein. Jn 1950, the Bthar Land Reforn15 Act came into force and all these villages State was not a party to it. A final decree was ~assed by the trial court in terms of the compromise. In appeal,· the High Court set aside the final decree on the ground that the suit had become infructuous as the plaintiff had no right in law to the properties, including the 1nines, which
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