Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 569 · Decided 1 May 2008
Mahant Dooj Das (Dead) Through LR. v. Udasin Panchayati Bara Akhara & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 569 · [2008] 7 S.C.R. 470
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5060/2007
- Decided
- 1 May 2008
- Bench
- P.P. NAOLEKAR, AFTAB ALAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
). Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 - s.331 -Applicability of- Jurisdiction of civil court c - Held: No evidence led by defendants that suit land was · demarcated under s. 5 and as such vested in State Government - Hence s.331 of 1950 Act not applicable - in State Government, s.331 would have no application to oust jurisdiction of civil court - Burden lies ; D. on defendants to prove that suit lands were demarcated which they failed to discharge - Uttar Pradesh Urban Areas Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1956 - ss. 5 and 8.
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