HASMUKHLAL DAHAYABHAT Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The eight Civil Appeals before us by certificates of fitness of the cases for appeals to this Court raise common questions involving the interpretation of Articles 31A and 31B of the Constitution of India in relation to the Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling Act XXVII of 1961 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act').

(2.) The preamble of the Act says that it was enacted because:

(3.) The part of Section 6 of the Act with which we are especially concerned provides: