Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act

The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) acquired land belonging to several cooperative societies and, as per its policy, was to allot 40% of the acquired land to the societies' members. The Kendriya Karamchari Sahkari Grih Nirman Samiti claimed ownership of 292 bighas, provided a member list, and NOIDA a…

The respondents, appointed as Kurk Amins on commission basis by District Magistrates/Collectors of Uttar Pradesh, were tasked with recovering outstanding dues of cooperative societies. The State of Uttar Pradesh contended that such Kurk Amins, being appointed under a scheme of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, we…

The Supreme Court considered two civil appeals arising from partition suits that were pending when a village was notified for consolidation under the Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1967. The appellants argued that the notification and the resulting abatement under Section 5(2) of the Act nullified both th…

The appellants, who were allotted residential plots on land originally designated as a Panchayat Ghar, challenged the cancellation of their allotments initiated 13 years after the allotment under Section 122-C of the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act. The authorities relied on a Lekhpal report alle…

The appellant, Mazhar Hassan, purchased land from decree holders who had obtained a decree of eviction against the respondents under Section 209 of the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act. The decree holders' execution application was dismissed as time‑barred, after which the appellant obtained mutat…