Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 278 · Decided 12 October 1987
State of Kerala & Another v. Nilgiri Tea Estates LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 278 · [1988] 1 S.C.R. 444
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 16085/1986
- Decided
- 12 October 1987
- Bench
- SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136
Headnote
'""( Kera/a Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971: Section 2(f)-Eucalyptus trees planted in tea estate for fuel purposes for manufacture of tea-Whether area forms part of 'private forest' and vests in Government. c -~ The Forest Tribunal, Palghat, found that Eucalyptus trees but for supply or fuel necessary for the manufacture or tea. It held that the question whether Eucalyptus plantations raised in a tea estate would D be forest or not, bad no bearing to the extent or tbe cultivation, that the area planted with the Eucalyptus trees In a tea estate did not form
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