M/S. SARASWATI INDUSTRIAL SYNDICATE LTD. vs STATE OF HARYANA . — C.A. No. 442/2001

Summary: The Supreme Court dismissed Saraswati Industrial Syndicate Ltd.'s appeal challenging the High Court's dismissal of its writ petition regarding land ceiling laws. The appellant, a displaced person, had acquired evacuee land that was initially excluded from surplus land computation under the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953. However, after the land was formally allotted and mutated in the appellant's name (1968), it lost its "evacuee property" character and became subject to land ceiling provisions. The Court rejected contentions that procedural defects invalidated subsequent proceedings and that evacuee land should remain exempt, finding no illegality in the authorities' recomputation of excess land under Section 14-B of the Punjab Act. The appeal was dismissed with no order as to costs. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.