10,000 to the Jagirdar.
Thus, at the time when the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land reforms Act, 1950 U.P. Act No.
As pointed out by this Court in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Kunwar Sri Trivikram Narain Singh 1962 3 S.C.R. 213, the intention of the legislature as clearly disclosed by the Scheme of the Act was to extinguish estates and all derivative rights in estates and to extinguish the interest of intermediaries between the State and the tiller of the soil.
The appellant claims to be the descendant and successor in interest of one Dewan Krishna Kant Nandy in whose favour a jagir of 41 villages situated in the district of Ballia had been companyferred by Raja Mahip Narayan Singh of Banaras.
In the revenue settlement of 1841, Dewan Krishna Kant Nandy was entered as Jagirdar of these villages entitled to realise the land revenue and the zamindars of the villages were charged with the duty of paying the annual land revenue aggregating to Rs.
This jagir grant was recognised by the East India Company and in token thereof the Governor General, by a fresh Sanad dated January 10, 1785 assigned the said 41 villages as Altamga Jagir in favour of Dewan Krishna Kant Nandy.
When some of the zamindars defaulted in payment of the land revenue, suits for realisation of the outstanding arrears were filed against them and in execution of the decrees obtained in those suits the appellants ancestors purchased the zamindari rights of the defaulting zamindars in respect of some of the villages.
From the Judgment and Order dated 22.3.1966 of the Allahabad High Court in Special Appeal No.
809 of 1958 filed by the appellant herein.
647 of 1961.
When the provisions of the Act were brought into force, the appellant was paid companypensation in the form of annuity in respect of those villages over which he had acquired zamindari rights since the lands were held in trust for meeting the expenses of a religious institution.
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Subsequently, by a document of the year 1793, Dewan Krishna Kant Nandy created a trust of the income of this jagir in favour of the deity.
1 of 1951 herinafter called the Act came into force in 1952, the appellant claims to have held two distinct rights namely, jagirdari rights in respect of 41 villages companyered by the Sanad and additional zamindari rights in respect of the some of the villages acquired by purchase in execution of the decrees.
2239 N of 1970.
of the deity in a temple.
C. Manchanda and Mrs. S.Dixit for the Respondent.
647 of 1961 and companyfirming the judgment of a learned Single Judge of the said High Court rejecting Civil Misc.
The following Judgments were delivered BALAKRISHNA ERADI, J. This is an appeal by special leave against a judgment of a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dated March 22, 966 dismissing Special Appeal No.
N. Mukharjee and Ranjan Mukharjee for the Appellant.
It is the case of the appellant that since 1785, Dewan Krishna Kant Nandy and his descendants have throughout been realising the land revenue of the said villages.
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