Karnataka Land Reforms Act

The petitioners challenged the Karnataka State Government's orders permitting a partnership firm to sell excess vacant land under the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Act, 1976, alleging that the State lacked authority to grant such exemption and that the sale deed was void. The Supreme Court examined the scheme of th…

The Supreme Court examined the validity of a preliminary notification under Section 28(1) of the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board Act, 1966, which proposed to acquire 110.30 acres of land for industrial development, later reduced to 106 acres by a notification under Section 28(4). The landowners challenged …

The appellant, son of the second respondent, sought partition of the joint family property that included inam lands granted to the eldest son (respondent No.1) after the death of their father, who had been the Archak of a temple. The lower courts dismissed the suit, holding that a prior partition had been effected and …

Venkateshappa filed a writ petition challenging the status of certain lands, contending they were inam lands under the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 and the Mysore Inam Abolition Act, 1954 (as amended). The Karnataka High Court Single Judge directed the Land Tribunal to first determine whether the lands were inam la…

The respondents, cultivating tenants of lands endowed to a temple, obtained occupancy rights from the Karnataka Land Reforms Tribunal, which the temple challenged before the High Court. While the land was under acquisition by the Bangalore Development Authority, the Single Judge of the High Court upheld the occupancy r…