Supreme Court of India

Shrimati Shantabai v. State of Bombay & Others

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Bench Sudhi Ranjan Das, Vivian Bose, T.L. Venkatarama Aiyyar and A.K. Sarkar JJ.
Decided 24 March 1958

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Fundamental Rights, Enforcement of-Unregistered document conferring right to cut and appropriate wood from forest land-Pro" prietary interest vested in State by subsequent enactment-Claim founded on rights accruing from such document, if maintainable­ Constitution of India, Arts. I9(I)(f), I9(I)(g)-Madhya Pradesh Abolition of Proprietary Rights (Estates, Mahals, Alienated Larrds) Act, r950 (No. I of I95I). By an unregistered document the husband of the petitioner · granted her the right fo take and appropriate all kinds of wood from certain forests in his Zamindary.

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