Divyagnakumari Harisinh Parmar vs Union of India

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1724

SURYA KANT, DIPANKAR DATTA, N. KOTISWAR SINGH
Divyagnakumari Harisinh Parmar – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr Rahul Jain, AOR Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manan Kumar Mishra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shivaji M. Jadhav, AOR Mr. Ashwin N. Ramani, Adv. Mr. Brij Kishor Sah, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Vignesh Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya S. Jadhav, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Gupta, Adv. Ms. Aditi Brijesh Shah, Adv. Ms. Preeti Gupta, Adv. Mr. Narendra, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Ms. Shradha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Sinha, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR Ms. Shweta Kumari, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Prakash, Adv. Mr. Dhananjaya Kumar Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Mohd Asim, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv. Mr. D. S. Mahra, AOR Mr. Shamik Shirishbhai Sanjanwala, AOR Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anirudh Sharma, AOR Mr. Ritik Bhanot, Adv. Mr. Shyamal Kumar, AOR Ms. Sukhdip Kaur, Adv. Ms. Vashudha Gupta, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Pal, Adv. Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR Ms. Shweta Kumari, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Prakash, Adv. Mr. Dhananjaya Kumar Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Mohd Asim, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv.

Table of Content
1. dispute over land grants from colonial era. (Para 1 , 2)
2. contentions between appellants and respondents. (Para 5)
3. arguments concerning the 1971 land reforms regulation. (Para 6 , 7)
4. nature of land rights conferred under regulations. (Para 8 , 9)
5. high court's jurisdiction in second appeals. (Para 39 , 40)
6. final decision and implications for land ownership. (Para 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99)

JUDGMENT :

1. The captioned appeals arise from a common judgment dated 11, 15, 16, 17.02.2005 (Impugned Judgment) delivered by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay (High Court) in several Second Appeals, in an issue pertaining to the recission of land grants relating to properties situated in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Dadra and Nagar Haveli). The said properties were parcels of land originally vested in the erstwhile Portuguese Government and were granted to the Appellants’ predecessors-in-title between 1923 and 1930, subject to certain conditions for agricultural cultivation. These grants were subsequently rescinded by the Collector, Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Collector), vide an order dated 30.04.1974, thereby setting in motion a protracted legal wrangl

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1724

SURYA KANT, DIPANKAR DATTA, N. KOTISWAR SINGHDivyagnakumari Harisinh Parmar – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

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SURYA KANT, DIPANKAR DATTA, N. KOTISWAR SINGH
Divyagnakumari Harisinh Parmar – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent