Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulations) Act, 1976

The first respondent filed a suit for specific performance which was settled by a decree that appointed a court‑appointed receiver to hold the balance sale consideration of Rs.6,00,000. The appellants instructed the receiver to pay Rs.3,00,000 to Park Services Pvt. Ltd. for statutory liabilities and to release the rema…

The State of West Bengal sought to revise a 1957 record of rights concerning land that had been leased to a paper mill, arguing that the land vested in the State under the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953. The respondents, Karan Singh Binayak and others, had purchased the land and commenced construction after …

The State of Uttar Pradesh appealed against a High Court order that exempted a parcel of land in village Para, Lucknow, from the ceiling provisions of the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulations) Act, 1976 on the ground that it was agricultural land. The land was entered as agricultural in revenue records and shown as such i…

The Tulsi Co‑operative Housing Society had agreed to buy 24 acres of land but the State of Andhra Pradesh, under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, acquired 18.03 acres for a HUDCO housing project, invoking the urgency clause and dispensing with a Section 5A enquiry. The Society and the landowner challenged the acquisitio…

The State of Maharashtra appealed against a Bombay High Court order that had held the respondents, B.E. Billimoria and others, were within the ceiling limit of vacant land in Pune. The respondents jointly owned a 5,428.09‑sq‑m plot in Pune and each owned a flat in a Mumbai co‑operative housing society. The competent an…

The case concerned the interpretation of the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulations) Act, 1976 with respect to whether a master plan existing at the time of the Act's commencement or a later master plan should be used to determine if land is vacant land in excess of the ceiling limit. The State of Andhra Pradesh sought to e…