https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=781619 For vesting of private forests on the footing of a forest notice, due service of the Section 35(3) notice and a live statutory process culminating in lawful final action are mandatory. Mere issuance of an unserved notice is insufficient, and a dormant notice cannot later be relied on to create vesting. In the absence of proof of service, a final notification, possession-taking steps, and contemporaneous statutory action, revenue mutations and later declarations treating the lands as private forests could not sustain the acquisition, because mutation entries are only ministerial and cannot replace the statutory preconditions for deprivation of property. en-us Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:44:22 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=781619 For vesting of private forests on the footing of a forest notice, due service of the Section 35(3) notice and a live statutory process culminating in lawful final action are mandatory. Mere issuance of an unserved notice is insufficient, and a dormant notice cannot later be relied on to create vesting. In the absence of proof of service, a final notification, possession-taking steps, and contemporaneous statutory action, revenue mutations and later declarations treating the lands as private forests could not sustain the acquisition, because mutation entries are only ministerial and cannot replace the statutory preconditions for deprivation of property. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=781619