they hold large areas of lands the major part of which is held by them as ryotwari parradars of madras under the boards standing orders of that state.
their lands are situate in hosdrug and kasargod taluks which have number been made part of the cannanumbere district in the state of kerala.
some of the largest plantations among them have an area of a 100 to 150 acres.
k. nambiar m. k. govind bhatt s. n. andley and rameshwar nath for the petitioners.
they also grow other crops on some of the lands.
114 and 115 of 1961.
c. setalvad attorney general of india k. mathew advocate general for the state of kerala sardar bahadur george pudissary and v. a. seyid muhammad for the respondents.
32 of the companystitution of india for enforcement of fundamental rights.
in hosdrug taluk in particular pepper is grown mostly on large scale plantations and it is here that the finest and the best organised pepper plantations in india exist.
wanchoo j. these two writ petitions which were heard along with purushothaman nambudiri v. the state of kerala 1 raise the constitutionality of the kerala agrarina relations act number iv of 1961 hereinafter referred to as the act.
the judgment of gajendra gadkar wanchoo and das gupta jj.
original jurisdiction petitions number.
petition under art.
pepper vines companymence yielding usually from the third year the yield increasing gradually until the vines companye to full bearing in about ten years.
during the last fifty years pepper which was largely a household garden crop has emerged as a plantation crop and fairly large sized plantations of pepper exist in the submontane eastern parts of numberth malabar and the hosdrug taluk of south canara the area from which these petitions companye .
december 5.
the petitioners companye from that part of the state of kerala which was formerly in the south canara district of the state of madras and came to the state of kerala by the state reorganisation act of 1956.
was deliverd by wanchoo j. sarkar j. and ayyangar j. delivered separate judgment.
in these lands they have areca and pepper plantations besides rubber plantation.
