Supreme Court Upholds State's Vesting of Private Forest Land Under Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971. The court affirmed the tribunal's rejection of the claimant's exemption plea due to insufficient evidence of principal cultivation as plantation under Section 2(f) of the Act....
The appeal arose from a dispute over the vesting of land under the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971. The respondent, Popular Estates, owned 1534.40 acres acquired in 1963. Upo...




