Smt Dakha Bai and Ors. v. State Revenu Department Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
In consolidated agricultural land ceiling petitions, the court addressed the conflict between petitioners restored to land and private-respondents who were allotted the same plots. It held that payment of compensation was invalid upon quashing and directed the state to allot alternative land to landless private-respondents while maintaining petitioners' possession.
What did the court decide?
The order of the Board of Revenue is substituted directing the State Government to allot matching alternative land elsewhere to the landless private-respondents, maintaining the petitioners' possessio