Displaced Persons (Compensation & Rehabilitation) Act, 1954

The appellant, whose father was a displaced person from Sindh, claimed the balance of his verified land claim (43.7 standard acres) after having received an initial allotment of 40.4 acres. The Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) allotted 19.26 acres in 2003, but the High Court held the CCLA lacked authori…

The Jalandhar Improvement Trust claimed ownership of 2½ kanals of land that forms part of a 55‑acre development scheme acquired by a 1977 award. The respondents, displaced persons from Pakistan, asserted that the land was evacuee property and sought proprietary rights, contending that the Trust’s eviction proceedings u…

The appellant, a displaced person from West Pakistan, was allotted about six standard acres of land in a semi‑urban village under the quasi‑permanent scheme of the East Punjab Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1947. In 1952 the Director of Rehabilitation proposed, and the Governor approved, a 50% premium cut for …

Smt. Pujari Bai, a displaced person, was allotted agricultural land and on 29 April 1963 received a permanent Sanad under Section 10 of the Displaced Persons (Compensation & Rehabilitation) Act, 1954, conferring absolute title. Later, during consolidation proceedings under the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Pr…