State Of Bihar vs K.M. Zuberi And Ors. on 15 November, 1985
20. It must, therefore, be inevitably held that in both wrongly importing and resting itself on an Explanation to Section 2(g), which non-existence (was non-existent?) because of its
retrospective repeat, and the failure to notice Explanation II to Section 2(ee), the Full Bench judgment has been rendered per incuriam and cannot be supported. This apart, the material legislative history of the provisions and the structural changes shifting the foundation of ceiling laws from the individual landholder to the concept of the statutory family holding went wholly unnoticed. Equally, the corresponding changes in Section 4and 5, which were both relevant and material, were not even adverted to the earlier judgments of the Final Court in Dattatraya Govind Mahajan v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1977 SC 915 and Nand Lal v. State of Haryana, AIR 1980 SC 2097 were not cited before the Division Bench.