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PETITIONER: GAZULA DASARATHA RAMA RAO
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH & OTHERS
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 06/12/1960
BENCH: DAS, S.K. BENCH: DAS, S.K. HIDAYATULLAH, M. GUPTA, K.C. DAS SHAH, J.C. AYYANGAR, N. RAJAGOPALA
CITATION: 1961 AIR 564 1961 SCR (2) 931 CITATOR INFO : R 1966 SC1571 (10,11) RF 1972 SC1586 (6) R 1977 SC 876 (2) RF 1982 SC1107 (6,7) RF 1985 SC 724 (3) RF 1987 SC1015 (17)
ACT: Village Offices--Village Munsif--Enactment Providing for selection of Post according to heredity--Constitutionality--Madras Hereditary Village--Offices Act, 1895 (3 of 1895). s. 6(1)--Constitution of India, Art. 16(1)(2).
HEADNOTE: Village P in the State of Andhra Pradesh was originally comprised of a village of the same name and a fairly large hamlet called PP, but in view of the difficulties in the two being treated as one unit for purposes of village administration the Board of Revenue sanctioned the bifurcation of P into two villages, P and PP. On the division of the village all the hereditary village offices of the original village ceased to exist under s. 6(1) of the Madras Hereditary Village-Offices Act, 1895, and new offices were created for the two villages. The section provided, inter alia, that "in choosing persons ...