Judgment

UNTWALIA, J. :- In this appeal filed by special leave of this Court it would be noticed that the appellant has endeavored on one ground or the other to get the 15 acres and 14 gunthas of land in Osmanabad which at one time formed part of the erstwhile State of Hyderabad and eventually came to be a part of the State of Maharashtra. The disputed land is comprised in Survey No. 206 / 8. There is no dispute that the appellant was the Inamdar of this land. The Hyderabad Abolition of Inams and Cash Grants Act, 1954 being Hyderabad Act No. VIII of 1955 (hereinafter called the Abolition of Inams Act) came into force on its publication in the gazette on the 20th July, 1955. The Abolition of Inams Act was amended by the Hyderabad Abolition of Inams (Amendment) Act, 1956 and was further amended by Bombay Act 64 of 1959 which came into force on 1 st July, 1960. It is no longer in controversy that the Abolition of Inams Act became applicable to the appellant s inam by virtue of the amended provisions on 1-7-1960 as a result of which under Section 3 appellant s Inam was abolished and vested in the State. Upon its vesting, certain consequences followed which will be adverted to hereinafte