Thereupon Rani Sonabati Kumari, the respondent, who was the proprietress of the Ghatwali Estate of Handwa situated within the State, instituted against the State of Bihar, in the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Dumka, on the 20th November, 1950, Title Suit 40 of 1950, inter alia for a declaration that the Act was ultra vires of the Bihar Legislature and was therefore " illegal, void, unconstitutional and inoperative " and that the defendant had " no right to issue any notification under the said Act or to take possession or otherwise meddle or interfere with the management of the estate in suit " and for a permanent injunction " restraining the defendant, its officers, servants, employees and agents from issuing any notification under the provisions of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, in respect of the plaintiff 's estate " and also " from taking possession of the said estate and from meddling or interfering in any way with the management thereof ".