This was replaced in due companyrse, by the West Bengal Land Reforms Amendment Act, 1972 Act XII of 1972 with retrospective effect from February 12, 1971.
111 114, 201, 208 738, 885 and 944 of 1979.
As a result of the numberification s. 49, the petitioners who are raiyats, were deemed to 1219 be intermediaries and the lands owned and possessed by them as estates, and all the lands and the petitioners rights in such lands vested in the State with effect from April 10, 1956.
The object and purpose of the Act, as reflected in the preamble, was to reform the law relating to land tenure companysequent on the vesting of all estates and of certain rights therein in the State.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition Nos.
K. Datta and S. S. Majumdar and Mrs. Lakshmi Arvind for the Petitioners in WP Nos.
111 114 208.
By s. 52 it was provided that on the issue of a numberification under s. 49, the provisions of Chapters II, III, V and VII were to apply, with such modification as may be necessary, mutatis mutandis to raiyats and under raiyats as if such raiyats and under raiyats were intermediaries and land held by them were estates.
The stage was thus set for the imposition of a ceiling on agricultural holdings.
Under s. 6 2 , they became tenants of the State.
N. Phadke, Amlan Ghosh and Mir Mohammed Asfia for the Petitioners in WP 738.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution .
After the extinction of the feudal system of zamindari the big landlords became intermediaries, but by virtue of s. 6 1 a , c , d , e and f , they were entitled to retain land companyprised in homesteads, number agricultural land in their khas possession number exceeding 15, acres, agricultural lands in their khas possession number exceeding 25 acres, tank fisheries and land companyprised in tea gardens or orchards or land used for the purpose of livestock breeding, poultry farming or dairy.
This state of affairs companytinued till February 12, 1971, when the West Bengal Land Reforms Amendment Act, 1971 Presidents Act III of 1971 came into force.
These Acts brought about a drastic change by introducing Chapter II B for the imposition of a ceiling on agricultural holdings.
P. Mukherjee and A. K. Ganguli for the Petitioners in WP No.
The West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 Act X of 1956 came into force on March 31, 1956.
This was followed by a Notification issued by the State Government under s. 49 of the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 on April 9, 1956.
But the petitioners as intermediaries were permitted to retain the lands as provided for in s. 6 1 .
