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CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 280 of 1988.
From the Judgment and order dated 20.5.1987 of the Calcutta High Court in Civil order No. 1344 of 1987.
Somnath Chatterjee and Rathin Dass for the Appellants. S.N. Kacker, Badar Durrez Ahmed and Parijat Sinha for the Respondents.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by OZA, J. Leave granted.
This appeal has been filed aggrieved by the judgment of the High Court of Calcutta dated 20th May 1987 wherein the learned Judge allowed a petition under Article 227 and quashed suo moto proceedings under Sec. 44(2a) of the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 ('Act' for short) and also the appeal which was pending before the lower appellate court under the Act. The proceedings under Article 227 reached the High Court rather in an interesting situation. Suo moto proceedings in 1968 were started by the Revenue officer Tollygunj under Sec. 44(2a) of the Act. There were also proceedings under Sec. 6 clause 5 read with Sec. 47 of the same Act started by Revenue officer and the case was registered as Case No. 22 of 1968.