https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168287 The SC held that lands were forests under the earlier statute and remained so when the Vesting Act commenced, and therefore the court declined to import the KLR Act meaning of private forest into the Vesting Act. Section 3(1) vests private forests in Government, while Section 3(2) excludes lands within personal cultivation, which plainly includes cultivation of trees of any species. Sub-clause (C), by its wording, was construed to exclude only fruit-bearing trees, not all tree varieties. The appeal is dismissed. en-us Fri, 06 Apr 1990 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:11:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168287 The SC held that lands were forests under the earlier statute and remained so when the Vesting Act commenced, and therefore the court declined to import the KLR Act meaning of private forest into the Vesting Act. Section 3(1) vests private forests in Government, while Section 3(2) excludes lands within personal cultivation, which plainly includes cultivation of trees of any species. Sub-clause (C), by its wording, was construed to exclude only fruit-bearing trees, not all tree varieties. The appeal is dismissed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 06 Apr 1990 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168287