RADHA DEVI Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner, who is a Dalit landless widow, by way of the present Public Interest Litigation has prayed for the following reliefs: -

(2.) The background of the case is that Bhoodan-Gramdan movement had been initiated by Archaya Vinoba Bhave, one of the great spiritual leaders and reformers of modern India, whose work and personal example moved the hearts of countless Indians.

(3.) The erstwhile State of Bihar had enacted the Bihar Bhoodan Yagna Act, 1954 to facilitate the donation of land in connection with the Bhoodan Yagna and further to provide for the settlement of the same with the landless person or with a village community, Gram Panehayat or with co-operative society organised by the Bhoodan Yagna Committee.