RAM RAM NARAIN MEDHI BHASKAR VINAYAK TENDULKAR PANDURANG GANPAT RAMCHANDRA LAXMAN BALWANT OAK KUBERDAS HARGOVINDDAS Vs. STATE OF BOMBAY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE following judgment of the court was delivered by

(2.) THESE six petitions under Art. 32 of the Constitution challenge the vires of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Amendment) Act, 1956 (Bom. XIII of 1956) (hereinafter referred to as the ` impugned Act `). It was an Act further to amend the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (Bom. LXVII of 1948) (hereinafter called the 1948 Act `).

(3.) UNDER s. 2(21) of the said Act the words and expressions used in the Act but not defined were to have the meaning assigned to them in the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879, and the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, as the case may be.