The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has emphasised that conditions under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure must be strictly fulfilled before a second appeal can be maintained. Pointing out the bare text used in Section 100 CPC Justice Wani remarked, “Thus, what emanates from above position and principles of law is that the existence of …
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has declared a notification deleting clause of the Punjab Village Common Lands Act, 1961 as "unconstitutional" observing that riparian land owners will be entitled to alluvion depositsThe Court said that deleting Section 2 of the Punjab Village Common Lands Act, 196 is liable to be declared to be ultra vires Article 31-A of. The …
Land chunks described in the revenue records as shamilat deh and wrongly partitioned and alienated would now be restored to gram panchayats in Haryana following an April 7 Supreme Court judgment. An SC bench comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice V Ramasubramanian in its landmark April 7 judgment had ruled that the village common land can neither be repartitioned among …
Following the recent Supreme Court orders that village common land can neither be repartitioned among the proprietors nor sold, the Haryana government has started the process of restoring illegally-sold land chunks back to the gram panchayats. As per the decision taken by the state government, mutations will be entered by the halqa patwari of land recorded as ‘shamilat deh’ in …
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the 1992 Haryana Amendment to the Punjab Village Common Lands Act. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- xxx xxx xxx shamilat deh" includes xxx xxx xxx lands reserved for the common purposes of a village under Section 18 of the East Punjab Holdings Act, 1948, the management and control whereof …
