Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 433 · Decided 30 June 2014
Ram Karan (Dead) Through LRS. & ORS. v. State of Rajasthan and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 433 · [2014] 6 S.C.R. 977
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5853/2014
- Decided
- 30 June 2014
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, KURIAN JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 23, 2; Limitation Act
Headnote
A B Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955: s.42, proviso - Transfer of land - Suit land sold to appef/ants-vendees in 1962 and C mutated in 1966 - After 31 years, Tehsildar instituted a case uls. 175 of the Act seeking ejectment of the vendees on the ground that sale was void being in the vendors belonged to the Scheduled Caste category and vendees belonged to an upper caste - Cancellation of D mutation - Propriety of - Held: Not proper - No doubt, there is clear prohibition in making sale by a member of Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes in favour of person who is not.
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