Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 367 · Decided 7 September 1994
SMT. Labanya Bala Devi and ORS. v. The State of Bihar Patna Secretariat, Patna and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 367 · [1994] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 210
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4124/1984
- Decided
- 7 September 1994
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, N. VENKATACHALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
I Bihdr Land Refonns Act, 1950: Sections 3(1), 4 and 6(J)(b};Raiyati C right-Settlement from erstwhile jaminda.,-l,and used for agricuJtUral pur­ poses-Pre-existing right-Whether extinguished and land vested in Govern­ ment. The appellants/plaintiffs filed a suit for declaration that the land. The Trial Court decreed D the suit. On appeal the District Judge held that the land in question stood vested in the State under Section 4 of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 and dismissed the suit. This was confirmed by the High Court. In this appeal, it was contended that in 1943 the
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