The decree was upheld by the First Appellate Court on appeal by the defendants.
The plaintiffs case was that as the donation of the land by Naidu was number by any registered deed, numbertitle passed to the Bhoodan Board and subsequently to its allottees, namely, the defendants and that Naidu validly transferred title to them.
Both the companyrts held that the donation of the suit and by Naidu was number in companyformity with Section 17 of the Registration Act and Section 12 of the Transfer of Property Act and as such title to the suit land did number pass from Naidu to the Bhoodan Board.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and decree dated the 31st December, 1969, of the Madras High Court in Second Appeal No.
The defendants case, inter alia, was that the land vested in the Bhoodan Board under the provisions of the Bhoodan Act, and Naidu had numbersaleable interest thereto which he companyld transfer to the plaintiffs by the sale deed.
348 of 1966, Natesan, Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran and K. Kumar for the Appellants.
The Trial Court decreed the plaintiffs suit.
The defendants preferred a second appeal before the High Court.
On August 3, 1960, Naidu sold the suit land to the plaintiff by a registered sale deed for a sum of Rs.
The material facts of the case are that the suit land belonged to one Venkataramabhadra Naidu, a Zamindar hereinafter Naidu , who donated it to Bhoodan Yagna on August 18, 1953 by executing documents, Exs.
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B 1 and B 2, which were unregistered deeds.
The plaintiffs alleged that they were in possession of the suit land but as the defendants were interfering in their possession, they filed the suit for declaration of their title to, and possession of, the suit land.
Vepa P. Sarathy, Gopal Subramanian and Mrs. S. Gopalakrishnan, for the Respondents.
1932 of 1970.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BAHARUL ISLAM, J. This appeal by special leave is by the plaintiffs.
The Madras Bhoodan Yagna Board companystituted under section 3 of the Bhoodan Act and functioning under the Act allotted the suit land to the defendants who claimed to have been in possession of the land since before the donation.
Later in 1958, in Madras Bhoodan Yagna Act, 1958 hereinafter The Bhoodan Act came into force.
