Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954
Section 81—Maintainability of proceedings—Once notification has came to be issued under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act and Delhi Development Act, then the land in question becomes urbanised—Thus, any proceedings under the Delhi Land Reforms Act as such would not be maintainable as Delhi Land Revenue Act and Delhi Land Reforms Act will cease to have any effect or applicability with respect to such lands.
[Para 10]
Section 81—Maintainability of proceedings—Once notifications of the government and its authorities as well as the Master Plan itself declare user of land as residential, then owner of the land in question cannot be forced to use the land for agricultural purposes, when the land in question has ceased to be agricultural in nature—Delhi Land Reforms Act shall not be applicable to the land of petitioner situated in revenue estate of village, as the said land lost its character as agricultural and is now an urbanised land in view of notifications of the government and its authorities as well as the Master Plan—Order/conditional decree issued by the Revenue Assistant/SDM is quashed—All the proceedings initiated under the DLR Act also stand quashed—Petition allowed.
[Paras 14 to 16]
Decision : Petition allowed
Land Reforms—Proceedings under Section 81 of Delhi Land Reforms Act—Maintainability—Once land in question has already been urbanised, then proceedings under Section 81 of the DLR Act would become non-est and would not be maintainable.