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PETITIONER: MAHARAJA PRAVIR CHANDRA BHANJ DEO KAKATIYA
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 18/11/1960
BENCH: IMAM, SYED JAFFER BENCH: IMAM, SYED JAFFER KAPUR, J.L. GUPTA, K.C. DAS DAYAL, RAGHUBAR AYYANGAR, N. RAJAGOPALA
CITATION: 1961 AIR 775 1961 SCR (2) 501 CITATOR INFO : E 1971 SC 530 (208,261)
ACT: "Ruler"-Recognition by President-Whether ex-Ruler for purposes outside the Constitution-Maufidar, Meaning of- Constitution of India, Art. 366(22)-Madhya Pradesh Abolition of Proprietary Rights (Estates, Mahals, Alienated Lands) Act, 1950 (M. P. 1 of 1951), S. 2(m).
HEADNOTE: The appellant was the Ruler of the State of Baster which was later integrated with the State of Madhya Pradesh. He was recognised by the President as a Ruler under Art. 366(22) of the Constitution. The respondent resumed certain lands belonging to the appellant under the Madhya Pradesh Abolition of Proprietary Rights (Estates, Mahals, Alienated Lands) Act, 1950. The appellant contended that he was still a Ruler and not an ex-Ruler and as such did not come within the definition of "proprietor" given in the Act. Held, that the appellant was an ex-Ruler for the purposes of the Act and was within the class of persons who were by name included in the definition of ’proprietor’ and was within the scope of the Act. Factually the appellant was a...