Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.
Pankaj Malik and Mr. R. P. Singh for the Petitioners.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition No.
Having failed in their attempts to undo the socialist reforms passed for the purpose of building an egalitarian society and bringing about marked improvement in the companydition of the poor suffering tillers by the various Acts passed by the States, the landlords left numberstone unturned and were always on the look out for an opportunity to seize the lands from the tenants on one pretext or the other through manpowers muscle power or money power.
5545 of 1980.
N. Kacker and Rathin Das for the Respondent.
Ceaseless attempts made by the landlords to challenge the companystitutional validity of the aforesaid reforms met with little success.
I n order to hasten and safeguard the agrarian reforms the Constitution takes full care by virtue of the insertion of the directive principles of Stale policy companytained in part IV, which are undoubtedly the heart and soul of our Constitution and have in fact been companyplied with in a variety of spheres.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by FAZAL ALI, J. True to the spirit and letter of our Constitution and in fulfilment of the promises made by our national leaders to the people of India, the Government sought to introduce agrarian reforms so as to reserve the lands to the tillers of the soil giving marginal relief or companypensation to the erstwhile landlords or tenants in chief, through various statutes passed by almost all the States in the companyntry.
