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PETITIONER: JADAB SINGH AND OTHERS
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE HIMACHAL PRADESH ADMINISTRATIONAND ANOTHER
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 28/04/1960
BENCH: SHAH, J.C. BENCH: SHAH, J.C. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.(CJ) GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. SUBBARAO, K. GUPTA, K.C. DAS
CITATION: 1960 AIR 1008 CITATOR INFO : R 1962 SC1753 (19) RF 1968 SC 360 (1) RF 1975 SC2299 (606,609,611,613)
ACT: Estates, Abolition of--Enactment declared invalid as having been passed by State Legislature not duly constituted- Validating Act passed by Parliament-Competence- Constitutional validity of the Abolition Act-Himachal Pradesh Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1953 (Himachal 15 of 1954), ss. 11, 15-Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Constitution and Proceedings) Validation Act (No. 56 of 1958), ss. 3, 4-Constitution of India, Arts. 19, 31, 31A, 240, 248, Item No. 97, List I, Seventh Schedule.
HEADNOTE: On October 10, 1958, the Himachal Pradesh Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1953, was declared invalid by the Supreme Court on the ground that the Legislative Assembly of the New Himachal Pradesh State which passed it was not duly constituted and was as such incompetent to pass the Act (Vide: Shree Vinod Kumar v. State of Himachal Pradesh, [1959] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 160). The President by Ordinance NO. 7 of...