Supreme Court of India

State of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors. v. Mahmood Ahmed & Ors.

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Reported as [1989] 2 S.C.R. 470
Bench S. Natarajan and Kuldip Singh JJ.
Decided 13 April 1989

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the observations of the High Court extracted above are not legally correct and sustain- able and also accordingly, set aside.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Evacuee (Administration of Property) Act 2006 of J & K State: )' Sections 6, 8, 9 and 14--Necessity for continuance of provisions- Emphasized. - c Respondent .No. 1, who claimed to be the owner of the evacuee property in dispute, sold it to respondents 2 and 3 in 1970. In 1973, the Custodian, Evacuee Property, held that the sale was invalid since the -t property belonged to one Shah Mahmood, and after Shah Mabmood's migration to Pakistan during 1947 became evacuee property under the Evacuee (Administration of Property) Act 2006 or J & K State. The Custodian General, while dismissing the

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