FALAKATA INDUSTRIES LTD Vs. ADDL DISTRICT MAGISTRATE AND DIRECTOR OF LAND AND LAND REFORMS OFFICER JALPAIGURI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) -Petitioner claims non-agricultural tenancy in respect of the land and therefore he claims that he cannot be evicted by reason of lease granted to him in 1980. Petitioner claims non-agricultural tenancy in respect of the land and therefore he claims that he cannot be evicted by reason of lease granted to him in 1980.

(2.) The definition 'land' was substituted by Act 50 of 1981 being the West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1981. The said definition reads as follows :

(3.) Thus, by reason of such amendment land of all description having since been included with effect from the date of coming into operation of the said amendment Act being 7th of August 1969, land of every descrip-tion is included within the definition of land in the Land Reforms Act. Thus, it appears that even lands which were Government under the Non-agricultural Tenancy Act were also included within the said definition.