Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 118 · Decided 9 May 1980
Seth Nand Lal & ANR. v. State of Haryana & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 118 · [1980] 3 S.C.R. 1181
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1361/1977
- 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
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 39, 31A, 31B, 14, 19, 31
Headnote
• Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972 (Haryana Act 26 of 1972)- .c~nstitutional validity of-Artificial definition of family unit-Sections 4(1), 4(3), 7, 8, 9, 11(1) and (2), whetill?r violate Article 14 of the Consti111tion. The Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972 (Act 26 of of the President on 22-12·1972 and was publish\xl in the Oflicial Gazette on 23-12-72. Section 2 contained and even now contains the requisite deda.ation that it was enacfed for giving effect to the policy of the State towards securing the principles specified in clauses (b) and (c) of Art.
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