B. L. Hansaria. J,- An important question relating to rights on the inhabitants of this state to get Periodic Patta under the provisions of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation 1886, for short the "Regulation", has come up for decision in this application under Article 226 of the Constitution. The precise question for our dete­rmination is whether after coming into force of the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, I960, in short the "Land Reforms Act", the provisions contained in the Regulation relating to conversion of Annual Patta land into Periodic Patta land survived or not.

2. The question has arisen for our determination on these broad facts. An area of land measuring 5. 29 acres covered by Dag Nos. 1115, 1226 and 1310 of Patta No. 94 of Serou Village was in occupation of Gajendra Chandra. At one point of time he had been granted Annual Patta for the land in question. It is the case of the predecessor-in interest of the petitioners that Gajendra Chandra had transferred the land to him sometime in 1967. Thereafter on being satisfied that the land was under the possession of the petitioners, the Assistant Survey and Settlement Officer granted mutation in the name of the p

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