Supreme Court of India

Kedar Mishra v. The State of Bihar & Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 3 S.C.R. 1
Bench T.S. Thakur, R. Banumathi and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 12 April 2016

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Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Rules, 1963: r.19 - Right of pre-emption - Pre­ emption application filed by appellant-co-sharer dismissed for non­ compliance of rule 19 and Form L. .13 since deposit of amount for filing of pre-emption cases was not made under the prescribed head - Held: Though amount was deposited under wrong head, the fact remains that the amount was deposited to the credit of the treasury - party cannot be denied right of adjudicatiOn of the matter on merits merely because of some inadvertent mistake - Mentioning a wrong head

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