Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 119 · Decided 9 May 1980
Sasanka Sekhar Maity & ORS. ETC. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 119 · [1980] 3 S.C.R. 1209
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 111/1979
- Decided
- 9 May 1980
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, V.D. TULZAPURKAR, A.P. SEN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 31A(1)
Headnote
" • • SASANKA SEKHAR MAITY & ORS. ETC. v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS. May 9, 1980 [Y. V. CHANDRACHUD, CJ., P. N· BHAGWATI, V. R. KRISHNA IYER, V. D. TULZAPURKAR AND A. P. SEN; JJ.] Fixation of ceiling of agricultural holdings-Whether the provisions of Chapter JIB of the (Act XII of 1972) with retrospective effect from February 15, 1971 is viola­ tive of the second proviso to Article 31A(1) of the Constitution. In furtherance of the Direc(ive Principles enshrined in Article 39(b), agra­ rian reforn1 wa~ undertaken in the State of West Bengal in two
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