DEEPA vs STATE OF RAJASTHAN — C.A. No. 5523/1995

Case Summary: Deepa v. State of Rajasthan (1995) The Supreme Court allowed Deepa's appeal, declaring her a khatedar (tenant) of the disputed land. The Court held that the respondent (Ram Chandra), having accepted Deepa as a tenant in earlier proceedings, could not take a contradictory position in subsequent revenue proceedings to claim the land for a temple. The Court found that Khasra Girdawari records showed Deepa's name as cultivator by 1957 when the Tenancy Act came into force, establishing her tenant rights as heritable and transferable under the Jagirs Act. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.