The Writ Petitions are filed in this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution by several Owners and or lessees of large tracts of forest lands.
As a result of the Act referred to above, these forest lands vest in the State, allegedly, as a measure of agrarian reform.
151, 152, 153, 176, 177, 178.
The Civil, Appeals are filed by the State, of Kerala from the judgment and order of a full bench of the Kerala High Court Reported in A.I.R. 1973, Kerala 36 in petitions filed in that companyrt challenging the Act.
3858 of 1971.
Appeal from the judgment and order dated the 21st June, 1972, ,,if the Kerala High Court at Emakulam in O.P. No.
Plantations like tea, companyfee, rubber, teak and cardamom have been raised in the private forests by the rich planters.
1416 1417 .
1 in all the W.Ps .
C. Chagla, in C.A. 1417 only T. K. M. Unnithan and A. S. Nambiar, for respondents in C.A. Nos.
M. Abdul Kader, V. A. Seyid Muhammad and P. C. Chandi, for the appellants, in all appeals .
N. Sachthey, for respondent No.
In other places after clear felling the forests, companyoanut, areca, tapioca and other cultivations have been raised, the yield of which is found to be companysiderably high when companypared to the other areas of the State.
CIVIL APPELLATE ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
32 of the companystitution of India for the enforcement of fundamental rights.
2 in all W.Ps except P. 186/71 .
Under Art.
1416 of 1972.
4036 of 1971 and Writ Petition Nos.
except W.P. 186/71 .
K. Krishnan Menon, B. Mohan and O.P. Khaitan for respondent in C.A. No.
M. Abdul Kader, Sukumaran and K. M. K. Nair, for respondent No.
was delivered by PALEKAR, J. KRISHNA IYER, J. gave a separate Opinion on behalf of himself and P. N. BHAGWATI, J. PALEKAR,J All the above cases involve a challenged to the Kerala Private Forests Vesting and Assignment Act 26 of 1971 hereinafter called the Act on the ground that the Act as a whole was violative of Articles 14, 19 1 f g and 31 of the Constitution.
The Judgment of A. N. RAY C.J. D. G. PALEKAR and Y. V. CHANDRACHUD, JJ.
1398/72 .
Civil Appeal No.
1417 of 1972 Appeal from the judgment and order dated the 21st June,, 1972 of the Kerala High Court at Ernakulam in O.P. No.
Dutta and J. B. Dadachani, for petitioners in all Ps.
Sudhakaran and P. K. Pillai, for petitioner in W.P. 186/71 .
Appeal from the judgment and order dated the 21st June, 1972 of the Kerala High Court at Ernakulam in O.P. No.
1938 of 1972.
The lands involved are private forest lands situated in the former Malabar District which, after the States Re organization Act, 1956, stood transferred from the old State of Madras to the new State of Kerala.
3771 of 1971.
Civil Appeal No.
179, 180, 181, 182, 186, 187, 188, 189, 198 of 1971.
