KANCHERLA MADHUSUDHANA RAO Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a Special Leave Petition directed against the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in C.R.P. 793 of 1995 dated 23-6-1999.

(2.) The matter relates to interpretation of Section 4A of the A. P. Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1973. The petitioner before us is the landholder who claims that he need not surrender the excess land in his possession inasmuch as he is a major son and his mother is owning less than a family holding and because the deficiency in her holding is more than the excess in the petitioner's holding.

(3.) Section 4A of the Act reads as follows: