Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 96 · Decided 3 February 1995
Sri Bagawati Tea Estates LTD. v. Government of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 96 · [1995] 1 S.C.R. 832
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 974/1991
- Decided
- 3 February 1995
- Bench
- B.P. JEEVAN REDDY, S.C. SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 31A
Headnote
TEA ESTATES LTD. v. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND ORS. FEBRUARY 3, 1995 B [B.P. JEEVAN REDDY AND SUHAS C. SEN, JJ.) Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971-Constitu­ tional validity-Failure to fully carry out objectives as contemplated by Section ](}-Whether renders enactment other particu/ars'-Meaning and scope. Soon after the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, D 1971 was enacted by the Kerala Legislature to acquire forest lands held on Janman right as a measure of agrarian reform which had the effect of vesting the ownership and possession of
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