Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 88 · Decided 4 August 1983
Prem Nath Raina and Others v. State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 88 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 536
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 4195/1978
- Decided
- 4 August 1983
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, R.S. PATHAK, SABYASACHI MUKHERJI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 19, 31, 31A, 32
Headnote
G 536 PREM NATH RAINA AND OTHERS . '· STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND OTHERS August 4, 1983 (Y. V. CllANDRACHUD, C. J., R. S. PATHAK AND SABYASACHI MUKHARJI, JJ.) Jammu and Kashmir Agrarion ~forms Act, 17 of 1976-a measure of agrarian reform-Saved by Article 31Afrom challenge under Artic/es Articles 14. 19 and 31 of the Constitution. The petitioners contended that as the Act contained certain provisions which were not co-related to agrarian welfare, the Act could not be said to be a meas~ of agra_rian reform Md therefore not saved by Article 31A of the Constitution. Dismissina the
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