A Block Land Development Officer had initiated legal proceedings for the acquisition of the ancestral property standing in the name of one Brajgopal Mitra. The court passed a vesting order by which the ownership got transferred to the state. Mitra appealed against the order and later also filed a revision, but did not succeed. So, he filed a writ petition before the Calcutta High Court. He succeeded in getting the vesting order set aside. The court directed that the property should revert to the owner.
Brajgopal expired during the pendency of the litigation. His son Bhupati Ranjan Mitra then inherited his
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