Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 696 · Decided 8 July 1996
State of U.P. v. DY. Director of Consolidation and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 696 · [1996] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 191
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 744/1977
- Decided
- 8 July 1996
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, B.L. HANSARIA, S.B. MAJMUDAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Indian Forest Act, 1927-Section 2(}-Notification of land as rese1ved forest-A person holding the land as Sirda1-Not vested with proplietory 1ights under U.P .. Consolidation of Holdings Act-State being proprietor of the la1ul-Notification issued u/s 4 valid-Jurisdiction of Consolidation declaring the land in dispute to be reserved for forest was issued u/s 20 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927. The respondents recorded as Sirdari-holders of the land claimed before the authorities under the U.P. Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 that they D were in possession of the land and had
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