https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282721 The Supreme Court treated the West Bengal land reform amendments as agrarian redistribution measures protected by Article 31C because they bore a direct nexus with Article 39(b). It held that reducing the ceiling on land retention, regulating bargadars, and imposing a village-residence requirement formed part of a socially oriented scheme to transfer agricultural land from landlords to tillers and to distribute material resources for the common good. The Court rejected the claims that the provisions were confiscatory or arbitrary, and upheld the resumption and bargadar-related rules as reasonable incidents of the reform package. The challenge under Articles 14, 19 and 31 therefore failed. en-us Tue, 22 Nov 1983 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:24:20 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282721 The Supreme Court treated the West Bengal land reform amendments as agrarian redistribution measures protected by Article 31C because they bore a direct nexus with Article 39(b). It held that reducing the ceiling on land retention, regulating bargadars, and imposing a village-residence requirement formed part of a socially oriented scheme to transfer agricultural land from landlords to tillers and to distribute material resources for the common good. The Court rejected the claims that the provisions were confiscatory or arbitrary, and upheld the resumption and bargadar-related rules as reasonable incidents of the reform package. The challenge under Articles 14, 19 and 31 therefore failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 22 Nov 1983 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282721