Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 693 · Decided 29 October 2021
State of Kerala & ANR. v. M/S Popular Estates (Now Dissolved) & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 693 · [2021] 11 S.C.R. 541
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 903/2011
- Decided
- 29 October 2021
- Bench
- INDIRA BANERJEE, S. RAVINDRA BHAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971: ss. 2(a), 2(f), 3, 6 and 8 - Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 - ss. 2(47) and 81 - Private forests - Meaning of - Nature of land - Determination of, by Taluk land Board - Evidentiary value of - about the character of lands, under the Act of 1963, that becomes a piece of evidence for the purposes of the Vesting Act - Unless a contrary state of affairs shown to exist, the Board's order to be given due weight - On facts, rounds of litigation between the State
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