West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1972

The petitioners challenged the constitutional validity of Sections 14M, 17(c), 17(1) and 21B of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 as amended by the 1972 and 1977 Amendment Acts, alleging that the amendments were confiscatory, violated Articles 14, 19 and 31C, and were not covered by the Ninth Schedule. The Court e…

The petitioners challenged the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 and its amendments of 1972 and 1977, alleging violations of Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution and claiming the provisions were arbitrary, discriminatory and unreasonable. The Court examined whether the Acts, placed in the Ninth Schedule before 24 Ap…

The appellants owned agricultural land that was transferred from Bihar to West Bengal under the Bihar and West Bengal (Transferred Territories) Act, 1956, and the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 was extended to the transferred territories. The Calcutta High Court, in a 1984 writ petition, quashed the vesting of the …