...property”. The learned Senior Counsel also referred to the amendment passed by the State Legislature to the definition of “land” in the 1960 Act by way of “removal of doubts” to the expression “bid...doubts relating to “bid lands” of former Princes, as well as, Girasdars and Barkhalidars in the Saurashtra area which were duly covered under the definition of “land” and submitted that it was only with...a view to remove doubts that the Amendment Act was brought out and that it was not by virtue of the said amendment alone that “bid lands” fell within the definition of “land”. In other words...

...whether the land in question can be said to be a bid land or not. It is reported that the said dispute is now not res integra in view of the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of...NAGBHAI NAJBHAI KHACKAR Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT reported in (2010) 10 SCC 594. Under the circumstances, even the decision with respect to bid land is...

...26.2.1981, whereunder, the petitioner's claim of exemption of major portion of land on account of same being bid land was also rejected holding that the petitioner's family cannot be said to be consisting...of Revision Application being Revision Application No. TEN.BA.15 of 1982 in the Gujarat Revenue Tribunal. In this Revision Application, the Tribunal considered the contentions in respect of bid land as...petitioner has submitted that the ground in respect of exemption of applicability of Ceiling Act qua bid land is no more available to the petitioner in light of the decision of the Apex Court in case of...

..., 1951 was enacted with the avowed object, inter alia, of putting an end to girasdari system and extinguishment of their rights. "Land" for the purpose of that Act meant "any agricultural land, bid land...agriculture or not. And, "bid land" was defined to mean such land as was used by a girasdar for grazing his cattle or for cutting grass for the use of his cattle. 2.1 An Act to provide for...acquisition of certain estates of girasdars was enacted in 1952 in the form of the Saurashtra Estates Acquisition Act, 1952, under which, "bid land" meant such land as on 17th...

...that the petitioner was not holding any surplus land; C) to declare that the bid land admeasuring 779 acres 8 gunthas was wrongly taken into consideration as a part of...land and non- agricultural land (bid land) admeasuring in all 781 acres 8 gunthas at village Rajpara in Chotila taluka of Surendranagar district. The petitioner Page 2 of 7... has other 11 members in his family, including his mother, two wives and 8 children. Most of the lands were barren , stony bid land which was not...

...-C), the petition was dismissed. However, in both the matters, the issue considered by the learned Single Judge was whether the bid land could have been considered as part of the overall agricultural.... Learned advocate for the appellants further submitted that in 2004, the Act has been repealed, and therefore, the land in question which is a bid land ought to have been excluded from the provisions of...once the question about the bid land is decided by the Hon'ble Apex Court and this Court, the only aspect which was required to be considered by the authority was to consider the applicability of...

...5.8.2015, issued the following direction: "4. In that view of the matter, the petition is dismissed as far as bid land is concerned. However, if the petitioner moves to the...which would have effect of including the `bid land'. He has further submitted that however, the said Amendment Act of 1972 has been repealed by Gujarat Act 19 of 2004 and therefore the land in...question which is a bid land ought to have been excluded from the provisions of the ceiling Act. It ought to have been appreciated that in the facts of the present case, since the petition is pending and...

...subject-matter of this litigation are the lands owned by the former Ruler comprised in Survey Nos. 469/1, 470/1, 471/2, 471/3 and 472 in Village Vadva aggregating about 952 acres which being a bid land (a...through the motion of appeal, remand, etc. and finally the Gujarat Revenue Tribunal (for short “GRT”) held that the land in question being the bid land was excluded from the purview of the ALC Act and...include the bid land as well within the definition of land. On a clarification sought by the competent authority and the Additional Collector (ULC), the Under-Secretary, Revenue Department informed the said...

...Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Ceiling Act’) and submitted that the point which is required to be considered is whether the bid land would be covered under the...Waghela, JJ.) vide judgment and order dated 17.2.2004 The said judgment refers to the scheme and the provisions of the Ceiling Act and has referred to sec. 5, which in turn refers to bid land. After...considering the rival submissions, the Court has observed that “the issued raised in these petitions is whether the bid land held by the petitioners could have been declared as surplus land under the...

...’. ‘Gharkhed’, known in South India estate tenures as “homefarm lands”, means land reserved by landholder for personal cultivation. “Bid land” means such land as has been used by the landholders for grazing...thereof held by a Girasdar and includes uncultivable waste, whether such land is used for the purposes of agriculture or not and Section 2(18) defines ‘land’ which means any agricultural land, bid land or...K. Ramaswamy, J.— These five appeals raise four-pronged attack on the constitutionality of the Bombay Land Revenue Code and Land Tenure Abolition Laws (Gujarat Amendment) Act...

...No. 2 interalia contending that the land held by him comprised bid land, which was not cultivatable and excluding bid land, remaining holding would not attracting the ceiling limit. The concerned...applicant filed Revision Application No. TEN.B.A.915/81, interalia containing the grounds for challenge viz. non-examining the applicant on oath and bid land being wrongfully including in the holding...constant thread running through-out is that of wrongful inclusion of bid land as that was the only ground available at the relevant time and when that ground has become nonest in view of the Supreme...

...Ruler with the permission of the Collector and registered has become final and conclusive.(2) The lands in question being pasture land (bid land...1996 quashed the notice dated 25-1-1996 of the Collector. The High Court observed that it is unfair for the Collector to raise various issues such as illegal sale of bid land, breach of the Saurashtra...:“73. In the result, we allow the appeals in part and direct the Collector, Bhavnagar to grant non-agricultural permission in respect of the land of about 76 acres 36 guntas comprised in...

...uncultivable wastelands, being rocky and stony were not included in the definition of “land” in the 1960 Act as originally enacted; that “bid lands” held by the appellant(s) were sought to be included in...purposes could be included in such definition of “dry crop land” and since the “bid lands” did not fall in any “class of land” under Section 2(6), such land could not be included for calculating the...;(ii) that, the definition of “dry crop land” did not specifically cover bid lands and must be construed to cover only such bid lands as “abound in grass” and, therefore, the...

...by this Court vide the order dated 30.08.2013, in which the main issue raised by them was, whether the bid land could be considered as the agriculture land after amendment in the...regards to bid land having already been set at rest by the Supreme Court in the case of Nagbhai Najbhai Khackar v. State Of Gujarat (Supra...lands in village Amarnagar, Taluka Jetpur. On coming into force the Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Land Ceiling Act’ for short...

...contending that the land held by her comprised the bid land which was not cultivable and excluding bid land, remaining land would not attract the ceiling limit. Ultimately the Mamlatdar & ALT.... He further submitted that in view of the provisions of the Repeal Act of 2004, the bid land could not be declared as excess by the authorities below. Apart from the aforesaid submissions no other...State of Gujarat v. Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji Jadeja reported in (2013) 2 SCC 300 as the question about the bid land is no more res...

...:- "6. No sale, mortgage or transfer of any kind whatsoever of village site land, cultivable waste land, bid land or uncultivable waste land effected by a Girasdar or a...sale or transfer in any manner. Rather the requirement is that the sale, mortgage or transfer of any kind whatsoever of village site, cultivable waste land, bid land or uncultivable waste land shall...authority for executing the sale of any deed of transfer or of any kind of such land which is covered by the Act' 1952. The decision of this Court in the judgement and order dated 06.05.2022 has been...

...Amubha Hemantsinh Jadeja and Vakhubha Panchanji Jadeja were jointly alloted the bid-land bearing Survey No. 206 along with other agricultural land.”….I state and submit that the above...provisions of Saurashtra Land Reforms Act, 1951, Saurashtra Estates Acquisition Act, 1952 for the prayer that appropriate writ, order or direction may be issued for quashing and setting aside the...order passed by the Collector, Rajkot, dated 18.11.2009 at Annexure-A with regard to the land in question and also the sale deed referred to in the order.2. Heard learned advocate Shri BD...

...Hathiyabhai, was holding agricultural land admeasuring about 673 acres, 25 gunthas at villages Golida, Pipliya, Ankadiya and Tajpur, which included bid lands. After the amendment in the ceiling Act.... 4. Heard. The learned Advocate for the petitioner has stated that as far as the question of bid land is concerned, same is decided against him. However, he relied upon the judgment of this Court i...bid land is concerned. However, if the petitioner moves the concerned Mamlatdar and ALT on the point of 6(3B) or 6(3C), the authority concerned shall decide the claim of the petitioner in accordance...

...the suit land mentioned in para-2 was unirrigated land recorded as in the category of Bid land. Therefore, it was out of the purview of khudkasht (agriculture land). After the abolition of zamindari...record in the name of Hawas Khan as khudkasht, the land was a Hakat land and Bid land meaning thereby not used for agriculture purposes. Therefore, there was no agricultural activities were carried...get the declaration of bhumiswami when their father was not cultivating the said land and it was recorded in the revenue record as Bid land.Heard both sides and perused...

...aspects of bid land is kept aside, the order of the Mamlatdar on the said aspects of provisions of Section 6(3)(B) was required to be considered. But, the Learned Single Judge...Collector and thereafter, before the Gujarat Land Revenue Tribunal, the petitioner did not prefer any such appeals. In fact, for over 9 years, the petitioner took no steps to challenge the said order.... Only on the ground of gross delay and laches, this petition cannot be entertained. The sole ground for explaining such delay is that the question of bid lands was before the Government and the petitioner...