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1992 Supreme(SC) 196

B. P. JEEVAN REDDY, M. H. KANIA
State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: Tahsildar: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: Tahsildar: State of Karnataka: State of Karnataka: Tehsildar: Te – Appellant
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G. Seenappa: D. Navinlappa: Bhimana Gowda Saheb Gowda Biradar: Revasingh: B. Sonne Gowda: Ab. Nanjawangowda: M. Narayanappa: Muneppa: Bajantri Munivehkatappa: Shakuntala Bai: Channabasappa: Veerappa Mudekappa Mudenoors: B. C. Ramaiah: Ningappa: – Respondent


JUDGMENT

ORDER:- Learned counsel for the petitioners, the State of Karnataka and others, has sought to challenge the correctness of the decision of a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court in Lakshmana Gowda v. State of Karnataka, (1981) 1 Kant LJ1 which has been followed by that High Court in the impugned judgments. As we are of the view that the judgment in Lakshmana Gowdas case deserves to be upheld, it is not necessary for us to set out the facts except the barest minimum necessary.

2. The Karnataka-Village Offices Abolition Act, 1961 (for short the said Act) came into effect from Feb. 1, 1963. It is common ground that under the said Act the lands given to the village officers were resumed and then re-granted to them. The re-grants were made at different periods. Sub-sec. (3) of S. 5 of the said Act placed a restriction on transfer of land regranted. It runs as follows :-

"(3) The occupancy or the ryotwari patta of the land, as the case may be, regranted under sub-sec. (1) shall not be transferable otherwise than by partition among members of Hindu joint family without the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner and such sanction shall be granted only on payment of an amo














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