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PETITIONER: GANGADHARRAO NARAYANRAO MAJUMDAR
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF BOMBAY AND ANOTHER WITH CONNECTED APPEALS)
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 03/10/1960
BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.(CJ) KAPUR, J.L. GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. SUBBARAO, K.
CITATION: 1961 AIR 288 1961 SCR (1) 943 CITATOR INFO : R 1961 SC 291 (2) R 1965 SC 632 (11)
ACT: Inams--Abolition of Personal Inams--Constitutional validity of Enactment--" Estate " " Right in an estate ", meaning of--Bombay Personal Inams Abolition Act, 1952 (Bom. 42 of 1953), ss. 4, 5, 7, 17--Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879 (Bom. 5 of 1879), s. 3(5)--Constitution of India, Arts. 31, 31--A.
HEADNOTE: The appellants held personal inams which were governed by Bombay Acts Nos. II and VII of 1863 by virtue of which they held their lands on payment of land revenue which was less than the full assessment. After. the. coming into force of the Bombay Personal Inams Abolition Act, 1952, the appellants who were affected by it Challenged the validity of the Act on the grounds, inter alia, (i) that the property which had been dealt with under the Act was not an estate inasmuch as what ss. 4 and 5 extinguished was the right of the inamdar to appropriate to himself the difference between the full assessment and 944 the quit rent and this was not an estate within the meaning o...