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2005 Supreme(Gau) 5

H.N.SARMA
Bedang Apum – Appellant
Versus
State of Arunachal Pradesh – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
B.Loya, T.Son, B.L.Singh, Tony Pertin

H.N. SARMA, J.—

Nature of right of an individual over community land belonging to the community of the State and whether the nature, character and status of such community land so long maintained by the community since time immemorial is to be respected and maintained and/or protected, is the basis of dispute raised in this writ petition.

"Land is the habitation of man, the store house upon which he must depend for all he needs, the material to which his labour must be applied for the supply of all his desires; for even the light of the sun enjoyed, or any of the forces of nature utilized, without the use of land on its products. On the land we are born, from it we live, to it we return again-children of the soil as truly as is the blade of grass or the flower of the field. Take away from man all that belongs to land, and he is but a disembodied spirit" (Henry George Progress and Poverty New York 1921 P. 211), There are the philosophical Methods to which the Adis of Arunachal Pradesh adhrere to relating to the concept attached to land.

2. Gaon Burah of Remi and Poblung village respectively under Dambuk area of the Lower Dibang Valley District are the petitioners of this writ petition





























































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