Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1472 · Decided 11 December 1996
SMT. Chatro Widow of Nand Ram and ORS. v. Sahayak Sanchalak Chakbandi, Meerut and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1472 · [1996] SUPP. 9 S.C.R. 971
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 669/1980
- Decided
- 11 December 1996
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, G.T. NANAVATI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Refonns Act, 1950: Sections 171, 172 and 174. B J purchased proprietary right of Zamindari-She inducted her husband C T as tenant who died in 1947-48-T not a Bhumidar but J was a Bhumidar-Question as to who had succeeded to the estate of either T or !--High Cowt that she having died intestate, the succession would be in the line as provided in section 172-ffeld view taken by High Court was not co"ect-J being the proprietor her husband had only tenancy rights; on his demise, the lesser right D of tenancy which her husband had got merged with that
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