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PETITIONER: SHREE VINOD KUMAR & OTHERS.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH(and connected petition)
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 10/10/1958
BENCH: DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) BENCH: DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. SUBBARAO, K. WANCHOO, K.N.
CITATION: 1959 AIR 223 1959 SCR Supl. (1) 160 CITATOR INFO : E 1968 SC 360 (1) RF 1975 SC2299 (606)
ACT: Estates Abolition-Validity of enactment-Himachal Pradesh Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1953 (Himachal 15 of 1954).
HEADNOTE: The petitioners, who were land-owners of Himachal Pradesh, challenged the constitutional validity of the Himachal Pradesh Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1953 (Himachal 15 of 1954), said to have been passed by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh functioning under the Himachal Pradesh and Bilaspur (New State) Act (32 Of 1954). The impugned Act was introduced as a bill in the first session of the Legislative Assembly of the Old Himachal Pradesh elected under the Government of Part C States Act (49 Of 1951). Before the bill could be passed, the Himachal Pradesh and Bilaspur (New State) Act (32 Of 1954) came into force on July 1, 1954, abolishing the old Act and uniting the two States into one. While the Legislative Assembly for the New State was y...