Supreme Court of India

Raja Sri Sailendra Narayan Bhanja Deo v. The State of Orissa.

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Reported as [1956] 1 S.C.R. 72
Bench S. R. Das, Bragwati, Jagannadhadas, Venkatarama Ayyar and B. P. Sinha JJ.
Decided 3 February 1956

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What the Court ordered

In the result the learned Subordinate Judge answered the issues against the plaintiff and dismissed the ·suit.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Estates Abolition-'Estate', Meaning Qf-Estoppel by judgment -Test-Respondent, if can rely on grounds not specified in his State· ment of Gase-Orissa Estates Abolition Act (Orissa Act I of 1962), ss. 2 (g), 8(1)-Supreme Court Rules, 0. XIX, r. 4. The appellant sued the State of Orissa for a declaration that the Orissa Estates Abolition Act of 1951 was in its application to the Kanika. Ra.j, of which he wa.s the Raja. a.nd owner, invalid, un· constitutional and ultra vires the State Legislature and for an in· junction restraining the State of Orissa from taking any action under the Act. It was

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