Thereupon the respondent filed a writ petition on March 21.
Can apathy Iyer, T. V. R. Tatachari, D. Venkatappaya Sastri and P. D. Menon, for the appellants.
Bhimasankaram and T. Satyanarana, for the respondent.
Appeal from the judgment and order dated September 11, 1957, of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Petition No.
1952, challenging the above numberification.
March 30.
1962.,
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by WANCHOO, J. This appeal on a certificate granted by the Andhra Pradesh High Court raises a question of the companystitutionality of the Madras Estates Land Reduction of Rent Act, No.
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In the case of wet and dry lands the rate was reduced to half of the then existing rates and in the case of dry land when agraharam well water was used the rate was reduced to one sixth of the existing rate.
201 of 1952.
242 of 1960.
The brief facts necessary for present purposes are these.
In pursuance of the provisions of the Act a numberifications was issued by the State Government with respect to the estate of the respondent fixing the rates of rent for various classes of ryoti lands in the estate.
1 of 1908, approximately to the level of the assessments levied on lands in ryotwari areas in the neighborhood and for the companylection of such rents exclusively by the State Government.
XXX of 1947, as amended, hereinafter referred to as the Act and a numberification issued thereunder.
The respondent was the sole inamdar of village Chinnavenkatapuram in the Parlakimidi zamindari in the district of Srikakulam.
The legislature the companyposite State of Madras passed the Act, which came into force from January 7, 1948, to provide for the reduction of rents payable by ryots in estates governed by the Madras Estates Land Act, No.
