Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 150 · Decided 5 May 1987
Raja Satyendra Narayan Singh & ANR. v. State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 150 · [1987] 3 S.C.R. 224
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 390/1981
- Decided
- 5 May 1987
- Bench
- SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, S. NATARAJAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
c D E F G Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950: ss. 3, 9, 10 and 25-Minerals not exploited by the ex-landlord on date of vesting of the estate-Right of ~ ex-intermediary to get compensation for such minerals. Interpretation of Statutes-Rules of Construction-Statute to be read as a whole and in the for assumption and enforcement of an existing liability not to be construed as extending that liability or creating new one in absence of clear terms to that effect. '-f Sei:tion 3 of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 provides for vest­ ing of an estate or tenure in the State by
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