Narinder Singh vs Divesh Bhutani - 2022 Supreme(SC) 672

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2022 Supreme(SC) 672

A. M. KHANWILKAR, ABHAY S. OKA, C. T. RAVIKUMAR
Narinder Singh – Appellant
Versus
Divesh Bhutani – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
Vikas Singh, Monisha Handa, Mohit D. Ram, Rajul Shrivastav, Anubhav Sharma, Satya Mitra, Tejaswi Kumar Pradhan, Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Vijay Kumar, Ankit Swarup, Kedar Nath Tripathy, Gurmeet Singh Makker, Tushar Mehta, K.M. Nataraj, B.K. Satija, Anil Grover, Ajay Bansal, Kanu Aggarwal, Sharath Nambiar, Indira Bhakhan, Vatsal Joshi, Vinayak Sharma, Anuj Udupa, Rahul Khurana, Monika Gusain, Satish Kumar, Suresh Kumar Bhan, Ritu Rastogi, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Aakarsh Kamra, Sibo Sankar Mishra, Manjeet Kirpal, Colin Gonsalves, Kawalpreet Kaur, Hetvi Patel, Amiy Shukla, Shekhar G. Devasa, Manish Tiwari, Satvisa Pattanayak, Thashmitha Muthanna, Prashanth Dixit, Arun Bhardwaj, Bhaskar Bhardwaj, Abhishek Sharma, Ms. Gauraan, Rahul Kumar Sharma, Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Samten Doma, Sourabh Tandon, Sanjay Parikh, Srishti Agnihotri, Tripti Poddar, Satwick Parikh, Sanjana Thomas, Hitesh Kumar Shrma, S.K. Rajora, Akhileshwar Jha, Vivek Sharma, Ritwick Dutta, Rahul Chaudhary, K.V. Bharathi Upadhaya.

Table of Content
1. scope of section 4 of plpa in context of land status. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9)
2. substantive legal arguments against land classification. (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23)
3. judicial interpretation of forest classification. (Para 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56)
4. determination of land as forest under relevant laws. (Para 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69)

JUDGMENT

ABHAY S. OKA, J.

1. The broad issue involved in these appeals and writ petitions is Whether a land covered under a special order issued by the Government of Haryana under Section 4 of the PUNJAB LAND PRESERVATION ACT , 1900 (for short “PLPA”) is a “forest land” within the meaning of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 (for short “the 1980 FOREST ACT ”)?”

FACTUAL ASPECTS

2. Civil Appeal No. 10294 of 2013, Civil Appeal No. 8454 of 2014, Civil Appeal No. 8173 of 2016 and Civil Appeal No. 11000 of 2013 take exception to the order

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2022 Supreme(SC) 672

A. M. KHANWILKAR, ABHAY S. OKA, C. T. RAVIKUMARNarinder Singh – AppellantVersusDivesh Bhutani – Respondent

Cases Referred (9)

A. M. KHANWILKAR, ABHAY S. OKA, C. T. RAVIKUMAR
Narinder Singh – Appellant
Versus
Divesh Bhutani – Respondent