Bombay Land Revenue Code

The appellant, a former government telephone employee, had taken a house on lease in 1954 and continued to occupy it after retirement in 1967. Respondent S.P. Pathak applied to the House Allotment Officer for possession, alleging the appellant occupied the premises in violation of Clause 22(2) of the Central Provinces …

The State allotted 11 acres of land to a tribal respondent. The appellant entered into a sale agreement with the tribal and applied to the Collector for permission to alienate the land under the Bombay Revenue Code. The Collector and Commissioner refused, stating that land assigned to Scheduled Tribes cannot be sold or…

The Supreme Court examined a public‑interest litigation filed by villagers of Rasana Nana, Gujarat, which challenged the allotment of rehabilitation lands to six original land‑owners whose property had been acquired in 1954 for an agricultural university. The Court held that the writ petition was an abuse of process, f…

The dispute concerned several survey parcels of former royal land in Gujarat that were sold to Palitana Sugar Mills. The land, initially excluded from the Agricultural Land Ceiling Act, later fell under the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, and the reservation of one parcel for Bhavnagar University was claimed t…

The appellants owned a 30,885‑sq‑yd plot registered as agricultural land but located within municipal limits. They obtained permission under Section 63 of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act to sell the land for non‑agricultural use and sold it to a housing cooperative in May 1969. The Income‑Tax authorities …

The appellants were allotted 2 acres 9 guntas of land for agricultural purposes on the condition that it could not be used for any other purpose without written permission. They sold a portion of the land for building purposes and applied for permission to use the land for non‑agricultural purposes, but no order was pa…

The appellants and respondent were co‑owners of a property that had been partitioned and subsequently mutated in revenue records. The respondent filed an appeal under Section 11 of the Bombay Revenue Jurisdiction Act, which was dismissed, after which the appellants instituted a civil suit for declaration of title and a…

The Supreme Court examined whether a 53‑acre portion of Survey No. 345‑A in Dahisar was a "private forest" under the Maharashtra Private Forests (Acquisition) Act, 1975 on the appointed day of 30 August 1975, and whether the State’s acquisition of that land was proportionate and lawful. The Court held that the land was…

The plaintiff's ancestor leased a vacant plot of land to Binny Company in 1889, which then constructed a building and installed ginning and pressing machines before the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging Houses Rates (Control) Act, 1947 came into force. The lease was subsequently transferred to the appellant, who was late…