Forest Tribunal, Palakkad under
Section 8 of the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971 (for
short 'the KPF Act') for settlement ... father, he was personally cultivating the land. It is not a private
forest as defined under Section 2(f) of the KPF Act; the land
through their Partnership Firm viz.
Maduthala Plantations, purchased 100 acres of private
forest land in Survey No. 186/1A1 of Kunnathidavaka
Village vide registered Sale ... Government of Kerala enacted the Kerala
Private Forest (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971
[hereinafter referred to as “the Act”].
Section 3 of the Act reads
Principal
Chief Conservator of Forests, Uttarakhand to stop the tree
felling and usage of forest land for non-forest purposes in
Khasra ... neither a reserved forest nor
a forest in the record of the Forest Department. It was
further stated in the said counter affidavit that Khasra
filed by the respondents under Section 8 of the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and
Assignment) Act, 1971 (for short ... Preservation of
Private Forest Act, 1949 and that it is not a part of the forest. The Court found that
no forest trees are found
vest in the Government
under the provisions of the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and
Assignment) Act, 1971 . Against this order the appeal of the State ... this review
petition, Section 8(c) was inserted in the Kerala Private Forests
(Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971 by amendment made in the
year
necessary for the use of such mills,
factories or workshops;
d) Private forests;
e) Plantations
such area, including land
(cultivable, barren or Bir), forest, trees, fisheries, wells (other than
private wells), tanks, ponds, water channels, ferries, pathways village
sites, hats ... such
area, including land (cultivable, barren or Bir), forest,
trees, fisheries, wells (other than private wells), tanks,
ponds, water channels, ferries, pathways villagesites,
hats
Arising out of SLP (Civil) No.17627 of 2019)
Odisha Forest Development Corporation …Appellant(s)
Ltd.
Versus
M/s Anupam Traders & Anr. …. Respondent ... orders in respect of the same
private respondents who were the writ petitioners
regarding whom the Odisha Forest Development
Corporation Ltd. has also filed
such area, including land
(cultivable, barren or Bir), forest, trees,
fisheries, wells (other than private wells),
tanks, ponds, water channels, ferries, pathways
village-sites, hats ... Government on such terms and conditions
as it may determine.
(b) All private wells and buildings on occupied
land belonging to or held
declaring the blocks of forests described in the schedule
thereto as reserved forests. Alagarmalai is found at Serial
No.XXI. At this point ... rights of the Government or of
private persons to or over any land or forest
produce in such forest have not been inquired into,
settled
