Supreme Court of India

Chintamani Gajanan Velkar v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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Reported as [2000] 1 S.C.R. 570
Bench M. Jagannadha Rao and Ajay Prakash Misra JJ.
Decided 1 February 2000

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, while accepting the view of the High Court and the trial court, we modify the order by directing that the Deputy Collector should specify 2 hectares of land out of Survey Nos. 31, 32 and 33 which could be retained by the appello.nt.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Maharashtra Private Forests (Acquisition) Act, 1975 : Sections 2(/) 6 and 24(1). c Indian Forest Act, 1927: Section 35(3). Land-Holder--l'rivate forests land-Vesting of in State-Act come into force on 30.8.1975--Notice issued to landowner before appointed day-Effect of-Word 'issue' used in Section 2(f)--Whether means service of notice on the land holde~ifference between Section 2(f) (ii) and (iii) dis- cussed-Held, in cases where a fmal notification has been issued under Section 35(1) the entire notified land would automatically vest in the State on the appointed date, namely, 30.8 .. 197~ut

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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