Forest Act – Notified reserve forest – Consolidation authorities are behind the back

Once a notification declaring a land as reserve forest is published , then all the rights in the said land claimed by any person come to an end and no longer available and therefore the notification was held binding on the consolidation authorities in the same was as a decree of civil court. [ State of UP vsDy. Director of Consolidation. AIR 1996 SC 2432 : 1996 (6) JT 306 : 1996 (5) SCALE 145 : 1996 (5) SCC 194 .Kulip Singh, B.L.Hansaria & S.B.Majundar (JJ). ]