Supreme Court Considered Appeal by State Against High Court Judgment Partly Allowing Writ Petitions Challenging Inclusion of Certain Lands as Shamilat Deh Under Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961. The Court Was Required to Determine Whether Unutilized Bachat Lands Reserved for Common Purposes Vested in Gram Panchayat or Reverted to Landowners Under Sections 18 and 23-A of East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948.
1 Jan 1970The appeal before the Supreme Court arose from a Full Bench judgment of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana which partly allowed writ petitions chall...




