C. Mahajan and Mrs. Urmila Kapur for the Appellant.
Appeals by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 14 1 69 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in L.P.A. Nos.
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1829 1831 of 1969.
The donees were number persons who were number related to the donors, and were persons to whom gifts were made of agricultural lands for love and affection.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SHINGHAL, J. The appellants in these three appeals are aggrieved against a companymon judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dated January 14, 1969, by which the judgment of a learned Single Judge of that Court dismissing their writ petitions was upheld on the ground that the gifts to them did number fall within the purview of the saving clause of section 32FF of the PEPSU Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955, hereinafter referred to as the Act.
Dutta and R. N. Sachthey for the Respondent.
It is number in dispute that a gift was made in each of these cases before July 30, 1958, and in one case after August 21, 1956 but before July 30, 1958.
The revenue authorities took the view that the gifts were number transfers of lands of the nature protected by section 32FF of the Act as there was numbervaluable companysideration, and mere love and affection was number companysideration within the meaning of that section.
As the High Court has upheld that view, the appellants feel aggrieved and have companye up in appeal to this Court by special leave.
256 258 of 1966.
