Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 197 · Decided 3 September 1975
State of Haryana ETC. v. Sampuran Singh Etc
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 197 · [1976] 1 S.C.R. 626
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 123/1969
- Decided
- 3 September 1975
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, A.C. GUPTA, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Construction. of Statutes-lnterpretatidn of lc.v1d reform statutes or agrarian laws-Cv11struc11on to .'?ron1ote the general purpose of the act-Pu1njab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953-Section lOA and I9B-Va!idity of the Transfers reducing surplus lands. . The respondents wer~ smaH land owners The respondents, later on inherited certain lands whrch together with the lands already held by them exceeded the ceiling area. The respon~ents, therefore, ceased to be small ]and-owners. The respondents rhereaf~·er d1veste4 thernsielves of the excess lands by executing gift deed,
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