Hoosein Kasam Dada (India) Ltd vs The State Of Madhya Pradesh And Others on 23 February, 1953
The forum of appeal that the statute provided at the time of the initiation of the proceeding would endure to his benefit notwithstanding any change, unless the change is made retrospective from the date of the initiation of the proceeding As held earlier, the new Section 11 has been made to operate retrospectively. Therefore, the petitioner's right of his appeal before the District Judge subsists. The District Judge was therefore clearly in error in view of the Section 11, the appeal to the Collector. The view we have taken is supported by a decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hoosein Kasam Dada (India) Limited v. The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors. wherein the law on the subject has been firmly laid down, after consideration of various authorities on the point, in the following passage: