https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169725 Private forests held in janmam right were treated as estates within the constitutional meaning of Article 31A because janmam rights are hereditary proprietary rights in land in Madras and Kerala, so their vesting in the State satisfied the threshold for protection against challenge under Articles 14, 19 and 31. The Act also qualified as a genuine scheme of agrarian reform because it vested the forests in Government and required reservation and assignment of lands to agriculturists, agricultural labourers, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, unemployed rural youth, and other rural labourers, with land earmarked for agricultural and allied welfare purposes. On that basis, the Act was upheld as valid. en-us Tue, 18 Sep 1973 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 04 May 2015 10:22:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169725 Private forests held in janmam right were treated as estates within the constitutional meaning of Article 31A because janmam rights are hereditary proprietary rights in land in Madras and Kerala, so their vesting in the State satisfied the threshold for protection against challenge under Articles 14, 19 and 31. The Act also qualified as a genuine scheme of agrarian reform because it vested the forests in Government and required reservation and assignment of lands to agriculturists, agricultural labourers, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, unemployed rural youth, and other rural labourers, with land earmarked for agricultural and allied welfare purposes. On that basis, the Act was upheld as valid. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 18 Sep 1973 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169725