Supreme Court of India

Raj Kumar Rajinder Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh and Others

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Reported as [1990] 3 S.C.R. 469
Decided 20 July 1990

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the plaintiff's father had a surviving and subsisting right in the forest lands which were the subject-matter of the lease dated 25th September, 1942 and was competent to grant the same to the plaintiff or anyone-else, albeit subject to the terms of the lease.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Himachal Pradesh Private Forest Act, 19S4: Section 2(b), 4 and 11-State Government-Whether entitled to issue notification declaring private land as forest land. Indian Forest Act, 1927-Section 29: Applicability to 'private forests'. Indian Evidence Act: Section 92: Glaim based on document- 4 Whether oral evidence permissible to guide the Court in regardto inten­ tion of parties. The plaintiff /appellant is the second son of late Raja Padam Singh, the ex-ruler of Bushabr State in Himachal Pradesh. The erst­ while Ruler of Bushabr had sought the aid of the British Government in the management

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