Agricultural land Archives

Odisha’s 6000 families to get their land back as SC quashes acquisition of 6000 acres of agricultural land for Anil Agarwal Foundation's Vedanta University project

The Supreme Court observed that the entire acquisition proceedings and the benefits, which were proposed by the State Government to Anil Agarwal Foundation for setting up Vedanta University were vitiated by favourism and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

Case Briefs High Courts

[Res-Judicata] Kar HC | Even if some similarly situated persons have been granted benefit inadvertently or by mistake, the same does not confer any legal right to claim similar relief

Karnataka High Court: A Division Bench of Alok Aradhe and J M Khazi, JJ. dismissed the appeal and quashed the impugned judgment

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| What invalidates surrender of tenancy under the Andhra Pradesh Tenancy (Andhra Area) Act, 1956?

Supreme Court: Interpreting the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Tenancy (Andhra Area) Act, 1956, the bench of UU Lalit and S. Ravindra

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Connection with agricultural land a must for homestead land & waterbodies to come within the purview of the WB Restoration of Alienated Land Act, 1973

Homestead land when included within the meaning of the term “land” in 1973 Act means homestead of an agriculturist and not any and every structure on non-agricultural land.

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Jhar HC | Mere fact that dispute relates to title of land will not make it civil dispute if basic ingredients of Ss. 427, 447 IPC are met

Jharkhand High Court: Anubha Rawat Choudhary J., upheld the findings of the impugned judgment and modified the sentence to meet the ends

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Testamentary disposition of agricultural land to a non-agriculturist defeats the purpose of Sections 43 and 63 of Bombay Tenancy Act

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of UU Lalit, Indu Malhotra and AS Bopanna, JJ has held that an agriculturist cannot part with

Case Briefs High Courts

Claim already raised before competent court not to be interfered by High Court especially when no ground for the same is found

Madhya Pradesh High Court: This writ was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Sheel Nagu, J., in nature of mandamus. The

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Agricultural land cannot be declared as non-agricultural just because the plot was found vacant: Allahabad HC

Allahabad High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Siddhartha Varma, J., allowed a writ petition which was in respect to Section

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Assessee failed to show land as agricultural thus no exemption granted, liable to be assessed

Kerala High Court: A 2-Judge Bench comprising of K.Vinod Chandran and Ashok Menon, JJ. dealt with an appeal against the order of