Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 39 · Decided 24 February 1970
Sahib Ram ETC. v. The Financial Commissioner, Punjab & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 39 · [1970] 3 S.C.R. 796
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 116/1968
- Decided
- 24 February 1970
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act 10 of 1953, Section 18(1), sub ss. (i) & (ii)-Scope of-Whether to claim right of purchase tenant should have been in continuous occupation of land for 6 years before Act canie into force. The question that arose for decision in thes.e writ petitions and as agamst the land-owner, under s. 18(1) of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act X of 1953 should have been in continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy for a minimum period of six years on the date when the Act came into force (April 15, 1953), or on the date when he files
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