Uttar Pradesh Tenancy Act, 1939

The case concerned agricultural lands in Bulandshahr district where Smt. Ram Kali, a disabled land‑holder, leased the plots to Uttam Singh and Murli Singh in 1945. After her death, her brother Dan Sahai, also a disabled person, succeeded her interest and the lessees continued as year‑to‑year tenants. The question was w…

The appellant, the legal heirs of the late Nawab of Rampur, claimed that 1,073 acres of agricultural land listed as his private property in the 1949 Merger Agreement and subsequent letters were exempt from the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act. The State's Prescribed Authority issued a notice tha…

Ramjanam filed a suit under Sections 59 and 61 of the Uttar Pradesh Tenancy Act, 1939, claiming hereditary tenancy rights after possessing the land for more than 50 years. The trial court and the appellate court held that he was a tenant and had acquired title by adverse possession, but the Allahabad High Court set asi…

The appellant, Chandrika Prasad, claimed adhivasi rights over two agricultural plots on the basis that his father, Ram Harakh, was a sub‑tenant of a mortgagee and thus entitled to protection under Section 20 of the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition & Land Reforms Act, 1950. The respondents, who had purchased the lands …

Hardev Singh, a sub‑lessee of land originally leased by the Government to Lala Khushi Ram and later inherited by Harikishan Lal (Respondent No.2), challenged the declaration of his 2.49‑acre parcel as surplus under the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960. The Prescribed Authority had dismisse…

The appellant, Gulab Devi, succeeded to her father's tenancy under Section 35 of the Uttar Pradesh Tenancy Act, 1939, along with her sister Ram Kumari. After the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 came into force, Ram Kumari died unmarried while Gulab Devi was already married. The Deputy Direc…

The husband, a tenure‑holder under the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, surrendered surplus agricultural land. His wife, who had been judicially separated from him since 1973, claimed that she and their minor children should be treated as a separate holding, allowing her to retain more land. Th…

The Supreme Court examined a land acquisition dispute where the General Government Servants Co‑operative Housing Society Ltd. sought to acquire land for residential houses. The land had been sold by the Central Government to the first respondent, Wahab Uddin, after being declared evacuee property under the Displaced Pe…

The plaintiff, Mahant Dooj Das (deceased) through legal representatives, sued to declare title and cancel a sale deed concerning lands he claimed as heir and successor of Mahant Tahal Dass. The defendants argued that the lands were agricultural areas demarcated under the Uttar Pradesh Urban Areas Zamindari Abolition an…