https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=128237 Ceiling legislation enacted as agrarian reform was held protected by Article 31A and otherwise constitutionally valid, because its object was distributive justice through land redistribution. The challenge based on sex discrimination failed: the family-based ceiling formula, including adult sons but not adult daughters, was treated as an adjustment to the tenant-holder's retention and not a denial of women's property rights. The Court also rejected objections on consolidation abatement, staggered commencement, and the ignored-transfer rule, holding that ceiling proceedings did not abate and that the anti-avoidance provisions rationally supported the ceiling scheme. en-us Fri, 09 May 1980 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 21 May 2014 16:17:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=128237 Ceiling legislation enacted as agrarian reform was held protected by Article 31A and otherwise constitutionally valid, because its object was distributive justice through land redistribution. The challenge based on sex discrimination failed: the family-based ceiling formula, including adult sons but not adult daughters, was treated as an adjustment to the tenant-holder's retention and not a denial of women's property rights. The Court also rejected objections on consolidation abatement, staggered commencement, and the ignored-transfer rule, holding that ceiling proceedings did not abate and that the anti-avoidance provisions rationally supported the ceiling scheme. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 09 May 1980 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=128237