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PETITIONER: MAHARANA SHRI JAYAVANTSINHJI,RANMALSINHJI
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF BOMBAY AND OTHERS(and connected petition)
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 16/12/1958
BENCH: SUBBARAO, K. BENCH: SUBBARAO, K. DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. WANCHOO, K.N.
CITATION: 1959 AIR 547 1959 SCR Supl. (1) 911
ACT: Taluqdari Tenure, Abolition of-Liability of erstwhile Taluqdar to Pay land revenue assessment-Jama, if distinct from such assessment-Bombay Taluqdari Tenure Abolition Act, 1949 (Bom. LXI of 1949), S. 5(2)-Gujrat Taluqdars Act, 1888 (Bom. VI of 1888), SS. 22, 23-Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879 (Bom. V of 1879), S. 117R.
HEADNOTE: The appellants were Taluqdars owning taluqdari villages in District Ahmedabad, State of Bombay. In 1922-23 there was a revision settlement of land revenue and the aggregate sum of land revenue payable by each taluqdari estate was fixed. In 1925-26, in exercise of the powers conferred by s. 22 of the Gujrat Taluqdars Act, 1888 (Bom. VI of 1888), the Government of Bombay ascertained and declared the jama payable by each taluq which was much less than the amount of land revenue and the said declaration was to remain in force for thirty years. With the passing in 1949 of the Bombay Taluqdari Abolition Act, 1949, the taluqdari estates of the appellants were abolished and they became occupants of the lands a...