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SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT --(1) This Act may be called the Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972 (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Haryana. CASE LAW Haryana Utilisation of surplus and other Area Scheme, 1976-- Tenant in possession contested the suit for recovery of 1/3rd Batai by the landowners- Plea was that by coming into force of ceiling Act, tenants area vested in state and thus became Tenants Permissible Area- Relationship of Landlord tenant was denied-- Name of the defendant appeared in revenue records as tenant since 1951-52-- Old tenants, but that by itself does not make the land in their possession as TPA--It was necessary to move an application and get the area allotted--Tenant becomes the proprietor of land after the land is allotted and after the tenant had paid the first instalment of determined compensation-- In the absence of TPA the suit by landlord is rightly decreed; Lal Chand and others v. The Sub Divisional Officer (Civil) Cum -Assistant Collector 1st Grade, Dabwali, District Sirsa and others: 2001(1) ALL INDIA LAND LAWS REPORTER (Pb. & Hry.) 557 Surplus Land--Defendant's land, inherited through Will, declared surplus--Genuiness of Will and therefore order declaring land surplus challenged by daughters of natural heirs of original land owner--Contented, after death of their father they were in possession of land being lawful owners as heirs-State contested the suit as being collusive between plaintiff and defendant, to save land from vested in surplus pool--Also contented defendants are i11 cultivation possession of land--Held--It was duty of the propounder of Will, State, to prove that disposition made in the will not improbable or unfair or unnatural and free from all extraneous influences and was disposed with sound mind-Proof of the Will, lacking in essential particulars--Will not proved genuine-Daughters held as owners--Appeal allowed; State of Haryana v. Raj Kaur : 2001(3) ALL INDIA LAND LAWS REPORTER (Pb. & Har.) 140 Section 1 (3)--Haryana Utilisation of Surplus Area Scheme--Tenant on the disputed surplus land has a prior right for allotment of that land under Haryana Utilisation of Surplus area Scheme--Old tenant on the land--No notice issued to him--Prescribed authority duty bond to issue notice to persons likely to be affected adversely by order of surplus area- Statutory provisions not followed by the Prescribed Authority--Order is null and void; 1991(2) All India Land Laws Reporter 149