Judgment

S. M. FAZAL ALI, J.:- These petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution have been filed in order to challenge the vires of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the 1955 Act) as also various amendments made to the said Act up to 1977. The first plank of argument related to the constitutional validity of the 1955 Act. The second plank of argument was confined to the validity of the West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1972 (hereinafter referred to as the Amendment Act of 1972) which was in the nature of a Ceiling Act prescribing a particular ceiling of the area of land which could be retained by the tenant. So far as the Ceiling Act, viz., the Amendment Act of 1972 is concerned, it is conceded by the counsel for the petitioners that the constitutional validity of the aforesaid Act is clearly concluded by a recent decision of this Court in Waman Rao v. Union of India, AIR 1981 SC 271, where a Constitution Bench of this Court rejected the various grounds of challenge in respect of the constitutionality of various Ceiling Acts passed by the States concerned. In view of this decision the learned counsel for the petitioners was fair enough to