SOBHAG SINGH Vs. RUKAM KUNWAR THAKURANI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal has been filed under sec. 39 of the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) against the order of the Jagir Commissioner, Rajasthan, Jaipur, dated 20. 8. 56

(2.) PUT briefly the acts of the case are that Thakur Sobhag Singh, Jagirdar of Jhakora, the appellant, whose Thikana had been resumed under the Act on or about the 24th Sept. 1954, filed a statement before the Jagir Commissioner claiming compensation for the whole jagir including village Peepal-ka-Bas The respondent contested it on the ground that this village had been granted to her by her husband, the appellant, in 1930 in Khangi and a Patta to that effect was also executed by him in her favour and that ever since she had been in possession of this village in her own right and collected rents and appropriated the same for her maintenance. She prayed that the village being a sub-grant, it was not liable to resumption, and may be given back to her.