VI of 1888 hereinafter referred to as the Taluqdars Act , the Government of Bombay ascertained and declared that a jama of Rs.
The appellant in Civil Appeal No.
The Writ Petition relates to the demand made for the year 1956 57.
254 of 1958 except in regard to the fact that the jama ascertained and declared to be payable by the appellant in this appeal by the Government in 1925 26 was about Rs.
254 to 256 of 1958.
16,499 4 0 whereas the assessment was fixed at Rs.
21,877 as against the settlement amount of Rs.
5,734 as against the settlement amount of Rs.
254 of 1958 relates to the demand of enhanced revenue in respect of his Sanad estate.
Under the Abolition Act, the appellant became an occupant of the lands.
The appeals as well as the Writ Petitions were heard together, as they raised a companymon question of law.
Appeals by special leave from the judgment and orders dated May 14, 1956, and June 15, 1956, of the Bombay High Court in Special Civil Applications Nos.
Writ Petition No.
255 of 1958 was a taluqdar owning several taluqdari villages situate in Dholka and Dhandhulka Talukas of Ahmedabad District.
After the expiry of the thirty year period, the talatis of the respective villages called upon the appellant to pay the full land revenue assessment in respect of the lands companyprised in the said villages.
The petitioners in the two petitions also asked for similar relief against the respondents.
The appellant companytending that he was only liable to pay jama declared to be payable by him by the Government in 1925 26 filed a Writ Petition in the High Court of Bombay for the aforesaid relief.
The appellants in the appeals and the petitioners in the Writ Petitions aforesaid will be, for the sake of companyvenience, described hereafter as the appellants.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petitions No IS and 66 of 1957.
The facts in this case are similar to those given in Civil Appeal No.
K. Daphtary, Solicitor General of India, H. J. Umrigar and B. H. Dhebar, for the respondents.
32,643 3 0 was payable in respect of the said taluqdari villages and the said declaration was to remain in force for a period of thirty years from the year 1925 26.
In the year 1949, the Bombay Legislature passed the Bombay Taluqdari Abolition Act, 1949, hereinafter referred to as the Abolition Act, and it came into force on or about August 15, 1950.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
V. Viswanatha Sastri and S. S. Shukla, for the appellants and the petitioners.
The facts in this appeal also are similar to those in the other two except in regard to the fact that in this case the Government ascertained and declared the jama payable by the appellant to be Rs.
20,886 as against the settlement amount of Rs.
By s. 3 of the Abolition Act, taluqdari tenure was abolished and all the incidents of the said tenure attaching to any land companyprised in the taluqdari estate were extinguished.
Petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution of India for the enforcement of fundamental rights.
254 of 1958 may be briefly stated The appellant was a taluqdar owning several taluqdari villages situate in the Dholka Taluka of Ahmedabad District.
The appellant in Civil Appeal No.
In, this case the jama ascertained and declared was Rs.
In the year 1925 26, in exercise of the powers companyferred under s.22 of the Gujarat Taluqdars Act, 1888 Bom.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SUBBA RAO, J. These are three appeals by Special Leave from the judgment of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay dismissing the petitions filed by the appellants for Writs in the nature of Prohibition restraining the respondents from realising from the appellants land revenue in respect of their estates at an enhanced rate for the year 1955 56.
1270, 1373 and 1374 of 1956.
62,627 2 6.
256 of 1958 was a taluqdar owning several taluqdari villages situate in Dholka Taluka in Ahmedabad District.
44,551.
48,247 13 0.
The facts in this petition are similar to those in the appeals except that the Government ascertained and declared the jama payable by him at Rs.
18 of 1957 was filed by Thakur Vikramsinhji Manharsinhji of Gumph Estate, Ahmedabad District, Bombay State, who was a taluqdar of Gumph Estate in Ahmedabad District companyprising of seven taluqdari villages.
Writ Petition No.
The material facts in Civil Appeal No.
The facts in this petition also are similar to those in the appeals.
Under that settlement the aggregate of the land revenue payable in respect of the lands companyprised in the said taluqdari villages was fixed in a sum of Rs.
In the year 1922 23 there was a revision settlement of land revenue of the lands situate in the said taluka including the said taluqdari villages.
December 16.
66 of 1957 filed by the appellant in C. A. No.
This Writ Petition also relates to the demand made for the year 1955 56.
30,223 12 0.
14,452 11 0.
