http://JUDIS.NIC.IN SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Page 1 of 7
PETITIONER: THE STATE OF VINDHYA PRADESH(NOW MADHYA PRADESH)
Vs.
RESPONDENT: MORADHWAJ SINGH AND OTHERS
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 24/02/1960
BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.(CJ) IMAM, SYED JAFFER SARKAR, A.K. SHAH, J.C.
CITATION: 1960 AIR 796 1960 SCR (3) 106
ACT: Jagirs, Abolition of-Constitutional validity of enactment Vindhya Pradesh Abolition of Jagirs and Land Reforms Act, 1952 (XI of 1952), SS. 22(1), 37, Schedule cl. (4)(e)-Code of Civil Procedure (Act V of 1908), S. 9-Constitution of India, Art. 31 A.
HEADNOTE: These appeals raised the question of constitutional validity of the Vindhya Pradesh Abolition of jagirs and Land Reforms Act, I952 (XI Of 1952). Applications were made before the judicial Commissioner under Art. 226 of the Constitution on the ground that various provisions of the Act placed unreasonable restrictions on the exercise of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The judicial Commissioner held that the Act, excepting S. 22(1), s. 37 and cl. (4)(e) of the Schedule to the Act, was constitutionally valid. The State appealed against that part of the order which declared the three provisions unconstitutional and one of the petitioners appealed against the order declaring the rest of the Act constitutional. Held, that the appeal of the St...