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Bat to acquisition of right over certain lands.- Notwithstanding anything contained in any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas, no right shall accrue to any person in,- (a) land held or acquired in contravention of the provision of Section 20, or (b) land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for the Government or for any local authority or for a railway company, while such land remains the property of the Government or of any local authority or of a railway company, or (c) land recorded or demarcated as belonging to the Government or to a local authority which is used for any public works, such as a road, canal or embankment, or is required for the repair or maintenance of the same, while such land continues to be so used or required, or (d) a vacant holding retained by a village headman, mulraiyat and members of their family, or a landlord, or (e) village headman’s official holding, grazing land, jeharthan and burning and burial grounds. COMMENT Section 69 and Santhal Parganas Settlement Regulations (No. III of 1872). Sec. 18-Section 18 of the Regulation does not permit acquisition of title by adverse possession. This become evident because two provisions of Section 69 of the Act (B and C) have been taken from provisos (A) and (B) of Section 18 of Regulation. When the Act came into force on the first day of November 1949 it stopped acquisition of right in such land by any one. Meaning of Agriculture land the expression “Agriculture Land” has not been defined any where in the Act, in the ordinary course it may mean the piece of land over which operation of husbandry may be carried on. In this connection it is better to refer on more Section 69 of the Act. It bars acquisition of right inter alia over the official holding grazing land, jeharthan and Burning and Burial ground. To make the sensible reading of the expression “Agriculture Land” includes all the lands on which agriculture process are carried on. [Jhagru Mahto v. Ravan Hansda, 1972 BLJR xxvii (Sum)].