The Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), came to be enacted to provide for (i) the transference to the State of the interests of the proprietors and tenure-holders in land of the mortgagees and lessees of such interests including interests in trees, forests, fisheries, jalkars, ferries, hats, bazars, mines and minerals and (ii) for constitution of a Land Commission for the State of Bihar with the powers to advise the State Government for agrarian policy to be pursued by the State Government consequent upon such transference and for other matters connected therewith.

2. Section 3 of the Act empower the State Government to declare that the estates or tenures of a proprietor or tenureholder, specified in the notification, have passed to and become vested in the State, by notification issued from time to time. Sub- Section (2) of Section 3 of the Act provides for mode and manner of notification. Sub-Section (3) of Section 3 of the Act states that the notification, under Sub-Section (2) shall be conclusive evidence of the notice of the declaration to such proprietors or tenure-holder whose interests are affected by the notification. Sec