Case Law Analysis
|Calcutta High Court
Section 61 West Bengal Land Reforms Act | Pendency of Civil Suits Does Not Deprive Revenue Authorities of Jurisdiction : Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court has ruled that pending civil litigation cannot be used to bar revenue tribunals from deciding tenancy and land rights under Section 61 of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955. This clarifies the statutory separation between civil and revenue jurisdictions, empowering land reform authorities to act even when civil suits over the same land are ongoing - a critical precedent for thousands of pending land disputes in West Bengal.