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PETITIONER: THAKUR RAGHUBIR SINGH AND OTHERS
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF AJMER (NOW RAJASTHAN) AND OTHERS(and connected
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 14/11/1958
BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. SUBBARAO, K.
CITATION: 1959 AIR 475 1959 SCR Supl. (1) 478 CITATOR INFO : R 1960 SC 796 (3,6) R 1962 SC 50 (5) R 1962 SC 137 (8) R 1962 SC1044 (12) RF 1992 SC1277 (22)
ACT: Land Reform-Abolition of Intermediaries-Validity of Enact- ment-Competency of Legislature-Liability to resumption of jagir estates-Ajmer Abolition of Intermediaries and Land Reforms Act,1955 (Ajmer III of 1955) ss. 8, 38-Constitution of India, Seventh Schedule, List I, entry 33, List II, entry 36, List III, entry 42.
HEADNOTE: Section 4 Of the Ajmer Abolition of Intermediaries and Land Reforms Act, 955, provided for vesting of all estates held by intermediaries, as defined in the Act, in the State from a date to be notified, and the petitioners who were affected thereby filed petitions under Art. 32 Of the Constitution of India challenging the validity of the Act and, in particular ss. 8 and 38 of the Act on the grounds that (1) entry 36 of List 11 of the 479 Seventh Schedule to the Constitution gave power to the State legislature to acquire property for purposes other than the purposes of the Un...