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Issues: Whether the estimated compensation payable for agricultural land acquired under the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 was includible in the principal value of the deceased's estate under the Estate Duty Act, 1953.
Analysis: The decisive question was whether, on the relevant date, the deceased had a legally enforceable right to receive compensation. The Court relied on the earlier view that under the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 no legal right to compensation arises until the compensation assessment roll is finally prepared and published. It distinguished the authorities dealing with other land reform statutes on the footing that those cases proceeded on different statutory provisions and had not disapproved the earlier Calcutta decision on the West Bengal Act. The right asserted by the Revenue was therefore only an inchoate expectancy and not property capable of being treated as part of the estate.
Conclusion: The estimated compensation was not includible in the principal value of the estate; the question was answered against the Revenue and in favour of the accountable person.
Ratio Decidendi: A right to compensation for acquired land is includible in an estate only when the governing statute confers a present legal right to receive it; a mere inchoate claim, before final determination and publication of the compensation roll, is not property passing on death.
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