Gujarat Farmer Verification Process Streamlined for Buying Agricultural Land and Non-Agricultural Use Permission
by Siddharth Singh* and Karma Shah**
Agricultural land
‘Citizens of India shall not be deprived of statutory benefits merely on ground of not having Aadhar Card’; Telangana High Court reiterates
The Court directed the State to reconsider the petitioner’s request for issuance of Pattadar Pass Book-cum-Title Deed for agriculture lands without insisting to submit her Aadhar Card or its details.
Odisha’s 6000 families to get their land back as SC quashes acquisition of 6000 acres of agricultural land for Anil Agarwal Foundation's Vedanta University project
The Supreme Court observed that the entire acquisition proceedings and the benefits, which were proposed by the State Government to Anil Agarwal Foundation for setting up Vedanta University were vitiated by favourism and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India.
[Res-Judicata] Kar HC | Even if some similarly situated persons have been granted benefit inadvertently or by mistake, the same does not confer any legal right to claim similar relief
Karnataka High Court: A Division Bench of Alok Aradhe and J M Khazi, JJ. dismissed the appeal and quashed the impugned judgment
Explained| What invalidates surrender of tenancy under the Andhra Pradesh Tenancy (Andhra Area) Act, 1956?
Supreme Court: Interpreting the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Tenancy (Andhra Area) Act, 1956, the bench of UU Lalit and S. Ravindra
Connection with agricultural land a must for homestead land & waterbodies to come within the purview of the WB Restoration of Alienated Land Act, 1973
Homestead land when included within the meaning of the term “land” in 1973 Act means homestead of an agriculturist and not any and every structure on non-agricultural land.
Jhar HC | Mere fact that dispute relates to title of land will not make it civil dispute if basic ingredients of Ss. 427, 447 IPC are met
Jharkhand High Court: Anubha Rawat Choudhary J., upheld the findings of the impugned judgment and modified the sentence to meet the ends
Testamentary disposition of agricultural land to a non-agriculturist defeats the purpose of Sections 43 and 63 of Bombay Tenancy Act
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of UU Lalit, Indu Malhotra and AS Bopanna, JJ has held that an agriculturist cannot part with
Claim already raised before competent court not to be interfered by High Court especially when no ground for the same is found
Madhya Pradesh High Court: This writ was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Sheel Nagu, J., in nature of mandamus. The
Agricultural land cannot be declared as non-agricultural just because the plot was found vacant: Allahabad HC
Allahabad High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Siddhartha Varma, J., allowed a writ petition which was in respect to Section
Assessee failed to show land as agricultural thus no exemption granted, liable to be assessed
Kerala High Court: A 2-Judge Bench comprising of K.Vinod Chandran and Ashok Menon, JJ. dealt with an appeal against the order of