The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) has dismissed a writ petition challenging the inclusion of a wife’s separate landholding into the tenure holder’s surplus land determination under the U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960. The Court ruled that under the amended definition of “family” and “tenure-holder,” a wife’s land is liable to
Wife Cannot Be Treated as Separate Tenure Holder When Husband Is; Land Liable to Be Clubbed Under U.P. Ceiling Act: Allahabad HC
