Supreme Court of India

Sahib Ram Etc. v. The Financial Commissioner, Punjab & Others

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Reported as [1970] 3 S.C.R. 796
Bench M. Shelat and C. A. Vaidialingam JJ.
Decided 24 February 1970

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What the Court ordered

In the result the writ petitions and appeals are dismissed with costs-such costs to be one hearing fee.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act 10 of 1953, Section 18(1), sub ss. (i) & (ii)-Scope of-Whether to claim right of purchase tenant should have been in continuous occupation of land for 6 years before Act canie into force. The question that arose for decision in thes.e writ petitions and civil appeals was whether a tenant, in order to claim' the right of purchase as agamst the land-owner, under s. 18(1) of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act X of 1953 should have been in continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy for a minimum period of six years on the date when the Act

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