Supreme Court of India

State of Kerala and Another v. Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, Kerala State Unit and Others

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Reported as [2009] 11 S.C.R. 142

Bench S.B. Sinha and Dr. Mukundakam Sharma JJ.

Decided 21 July 2009

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, Civil Appeal Nos. 104-105 of 2001 and 899 of 2001 are allowed in part to the extent mentioned above.

Judgment, page 92

From the headnote

KERALA SCHEDULED TRIBES (RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER OF LANDS AND RESTORATION OF AL/ENA TED LANDS) ACT, 1975/KERALA SCHEDULED TRIBES (RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER OF LANDS AND RESTORATION OF AL/ENA TED LAND) RULES, 19861 KERALA RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER BY AND RESTORATION OF LANDS TO THE SCHEDULED TRIBES ACT, 1999: Writ of or in the nature of mandamus issued by a High Court directing implementation of an enactment vis-a-vis a subsequent legislation altering or modifying the right of the beneficiaries under the former Act - Effect of - The 1999 Act if given a holistic view is more beneficial to the

Authorities it was built on

1953 Dwarkadas Shrinivas of Bombay v. The Sholapur Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd., and Others. cited by 27
1996 State of Tamil Nadu v. M/s. Arooran Sugars Ltd. cited by 20
1984 Manchegowda Etc. v. State of Karnataka Etc. cited by 14
1994 K.T. Huchegowda v. Deputy Commissioner and Ors. cited by 4
1953 K. C. Gajapati Narayan Deo and Others v. The State of Orissa. cited by 3
1964 B. N. Tiwari v. Union of India & Others cited by 3
2000 Baba Charan Dass Udhasi v. Mahant Basant Das Babaji Chela Baba Laxmandas Udasi Sadhu cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2014 Census Commissioner & Others v. R. Krishnamurthy relied on
2011 State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. v. K. Shyam Sunder & Ors. relied on
2025 Estate Officer, Haryana Urban Development Authority and Ors. v. Nirmala Devi referred to
2024 Anjum Kadari & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2022 Pattali Makkal Katchi v. A. Mayilerumperumal & Ors. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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