Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 783 · Decided 8 April 2025
Sri Prasanta Kumar Pal & Ors v. The State of West Bengal & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 783 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 2606
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5078/2025
- Decided
- 8 April 2025
- Bench
- RAJESH BINDAL, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Whether the observation of the Revenue Officer, as prima facie accepted by the High Court that the transaction of gift deed dated 07.12.1967 was a Benami transaction is totally erroneous as the amendment (2nd and 3rd Amendment in the West Bengal Land into effect almost two decades after registered gift deed was executed. West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 - 2nd Amendment (came into force on 07.08.1969) and 3rd Amendment (came into force on 12.05.1989) - s.14T(3) r/w ss.14M, 14T (8) & (9) & 14S -
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