India, May 7 -- The Bombay high court on Monday set aside two orders of the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal from 1975 which divested an 82-year-old agriculturalist of the land he was cultivating in Haveli taluka of Pune district. The land was taken away because the old man, Thaku Jagdale, was unable to cultivate it due to his advancing age, which was not justified, the court observed.

The court was hearing a plea filed by Thaku's son Vitthal Jagdale. When Vitthal obtained the 7/12 extract of the land in 2008, he realised that his father's name did not appear in the revenue records. Upon further enquiry, he learnt that proceedings under the Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act had been initiated against his father and two orders ha...