Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 238 · Decided 16 April 2003
West Bengal Government Employees (Food and Supplies) Co-Operative Housing Society LTD. and ORS. v. SMT. Sulekha Pal (Dey) and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 238 · [2003] 3 S.C.R. 626
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 12509/1996
- Decided
- 16 April 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, D.M. DHARMADHIKARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
West Bengal Estate Acquisition Act, 1953; Sections 4, 5, 6, 7 & 10/Rules C thereunder: Notifications-Acquisition of estate and rights thereof vesting with the State-Right of retention of the /and/properties by the intermediarieslsuccessor­ in-interest-Exercise of-Held: Right in the lands would be available to intermediaries till their dispossession by the authorities in 1hl' D manner and by observing formalities as per statuto1y provisions-Since ejfective, aclllal and physical possession of the properties continued with the intermediaries/heirs, professed taking
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