Summarize the following court judgment. Appeal No. 177 of 1960. 554 Appeal from the Judgment and order dated March 27	 1958	 of the Orissa	 High Court in O. J.C. No. 191 of 1956. Hemendra Chandra Sen and section Ghose	 for the appellants. N. section Bindra	 V. N. Sethi and P. D. Xenon	 for the respondents. April 30. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SINHA	 C. J. This appeal on a certificate granted by the High Court of Orissa raises the question of the interpretation of certain provisions of The Orissa Estates Abolition Act	 1951 (Orissa Act 1 of 1952) which hereinafter will be referred to as the Act. The appellants who were petitioners in the High Court were the proprietors of an Estate	 known as Paikpara Estate	 in the district of Puri	 bearing Touzi Nos. 268	 269 and 270. The respondents are the State of Orissa and its officials. The facts on which the High Court based its judgment under appeal areas follows. Within the said Paikpara Estate	 there were several tenures and sub proprietory interests. The Paikpara Estate vested in the State of Orissa by virtue of a notification issued under section 3 of the Act	 on August 23	 1953. It is common ground that the interests of tenure holders and sub proprietors within the said estate have not yet been taken over under the provisions of the Act. Under the tenure holders aforesaid	 there were some occupancy holdings which Lad been purchased by the proprietors	 the appellants in this Court	 long ago. Thus the proprietors by virtue of their purchase became occupancy raiyats	 under the tenure holders or sub proprietors	 in respect of the holdings purchased by them. It is also common ground that in the last Settlement Khatians their interests as occupancy 555 raiyat8 in respect of the holdings purchased by them have been recorded. On the lands of the occupancy holdings	 there were several buildings which were used as Katcheri houses by the proprietors	 for the administration of their estate. In January 1954	 according to the petitioners in the High Court	 the State Officials took illegal possession of those buildings situate on the raiyati land	 as aforesaid. The appellants thereupon made an application to the Collector of Puri for vacant possession of the lands and the buildings	 described in the petition	 on the allegation that those lands together with the buildings	 purchased from tenants with rights of occupancy	 were	 after purchase by the proprietors	 used as Katcheri house by them. They also alleged that those properties had not vested in the State of Orissa as a result of the said notification	 under the Act. Part of the said house had been let out to the Postal Department. The Anchal Adhikari of that area wrote to the Postmaster	 and Superintendent of Post Offices	 not to pay rent to the proprietors. The Postal Department	 therefore	 vacated that portion of the building in their occupation	 which has gone into the occupation of the State Government. Another portion of the property	 which was used as dhangola was let out for storing paddy	 to a third party. That dhangola was also taken illegal possession of by the Naib Tehsildar of the place. Other portions of the property also are in illegal possession of the State Government	 through its Anchal Adhikari. It was thus claimed on behalf of the proprietors that the State Government had no right to take possession of the property	 as it did not form part of the estate which had been acquired under the Act	 and had	 on notification	 vested in the State Government. The learned Collector of Puri did not concede the demand of the proprietors	 and held that the occupancy holding is situated within the tenure held 556 under the proprietors and lay within the geographical limits of the (state which had vested in the Government. Being aggrieved by the aforesaid order of the Collector	 dated November 20	 1956	 the proprietors moved the High Court under article 226 of the Constitution for relief against what was alleged to be illegal interference with their interest not as proprietors but as occupancy tenants. The High Court dismissed the proprietors ' claim chiefly on the ground that the question raised by the petition before the High Court was "practically concluded by the observations of the Supreme Court in the case of K. C. Gajapati Narayan Deo vs The State of Orissa (1). It is manifest that the controversy raised in this case has to be answered with reference to the provisions of the Act. 'Estate ' has been defined in cl. (g) of section 2 of the Act as follows : " 'estate ' includes a part of an estate and means any land held by or vested in an Inter mediary and included under one entry in any revenue roll or any of the general registers of revenue paying lands and revenue free lands	 prepared and maintained under the law relating to land revenue for the time being in force or under any rule	 order	 custom or usage having the force of law	 and includes revenue free lands not entered in any register or revenue roll and all classes of tenures or under tenures and any jagir	 inam or muafi or other similar grant"; Explanation I. Land Revenue means all sums and payments in money or in kind	 by whatever name designated or locally known	 received or claimable by or on behalf of the State from an Intermediary on account of or (1) ; 557 in relation to any land hold by or vested in such intermediary; Explanation II. Revenue free land includes land which is	 or but for any special covenant	 agreement	 engagement or contract would have been	 liable to settlement and assessment of land revenue or with respect to which the State has power to make laws for settlement and assessment of land revenue; Explanation III. In relation to merged territories estate ' as defined in this clause shall also include any mahal or village or collection of more than one such mahal or village held by or vested in an Intermediary which has been or is liable to be assessed as one unit to land revenue whether such land revenue be payable or has been released or compounded for or redeemed in whole or in part". The definition makes reference to an 'Intermediary '	 which has been defined in cl.(h) as follows: 'Intermediary ' with reference to any estate means a proprietor	 sub proprietor	 landlord	 landholder	 malguzar	 thikadar	 gaontia	 tenure holder	 undertenure holder	 and includes an inamdar a jagirdar	 Zamindar	 Ilaquadar	 Khorgoshdar	 Parganadar	 Sarbaraka r and Maufidar including the Ruler of an Indian State merged with the State of Orissa and all other holders or owners of interest in land between the raiyat and the State; Explanation I. Any two or more Intermediaries holding a joint interest in an estate which is borne either on the revenue roll or on the rent roll of another Intermediary shall be deemed to be one Intermediary for the purposes of this Act; 558 Explanation II. The heirs and successors in interest of an Intermediary and where an Intermediary is a minor or of unsound mind or and idiot	 his guardian	 committee or other legal curator shall be deemed to be an Intermediary for the purposes of this Act. All acts done by an Intermediary under this Act shall be deemed to have been done by his heirs and successors in interest and shall be binding on them. Reading the two definitions together	 the position in law is that 'estate ' includes the interest	 by whatever name called	 of all persons	 who hold some right in land between the State at the apex and the raiyat at the base. That is to say	 the Act is intended to abolish all Intermediaries and rentreceivers and to establish direct relationship bet ween the State	 in which all such interests vest	 after abolition under the Act	 and the tillers of the soil. The interest of a raiyat is designated by the word 'holding and is defined by the Orissa Tenancy Act (Bihar and Orissa Act II of 1913)	 as follows: . " holding" means a parcel or parcels of land held by a raiyat and forming the subject of a separate tenancy". Under the	 Orissa Tenancy Act	 the unit of interest of a proprietor is an 'estate '. Under a proprietor may be a number of sub proprietors. 'Sub proprietor ' is also defined in the Tenancy Act	 but we are not concerned in this case with that class of holders of land. The interest of a tenure holder or an under tenureholder is characterised as a "tenure '. Thus	 the process of in feudalist and sub infeudation	 which has been similar in all places where the Permanent Settlement took place	 that is to say	 in Bengal	 Bihar and Orissa and Madras and Andhra Pradesh	 559 has led to the coming into existence of proprietors	 with their estates	 sub proprietors under them	 tenure holders and under tenure holders and ultimately the tiller of the soil	 the raiyat	 whose unit of interest is a 'holding '. The Act was intended to abolish all proprietors	 sub proprietors	 tenureholders and under tennure holders	 with a variety of names; but did not touch the interest of the raiyat. The same person	 by transfer or by operation of law	 might at the same time occupy different status in relation to land. He maybe in respect of a particular area	 which is geographically included in the estate	 the proprietor. That land may be held by a raiyat not directly under a proprietor but under a tenure holder	 who holds directly under proprietor. The proprietor may have acquired the interest of a raiyat. Thus the proprietor	 in his capacity as the owner of the estate holds the entire estate	 and he may have by purchase acquired the interest of a raiyat	 paying rent for the raiyati interest to his immediate landlord	 the tenure bolder. The tenure holder	 in his turn	 may have been liable to pay rent to the proprietor. That is what appears to have happened in this case. The appellants held the Paikpara estate as proprietors. They also appear to have purchased the properties in question comprising raiyati lands with certain buildings thereon from the raiyat. Hence	 the position in law is that though these lands with the buildings are situate geographically within the ambit of the appellants ' estate	 they are not part of the estate. In other words	 the appellants hold those properties with the buildings not as proprietors as such	 but as rayats. It appears that the Courts below have not kept clearly in view this distinction. The Collector	 in the first instance	 and the High Court in the proceedings under article 226 of the Constitution	 appear to have fallen into the error of confusing the petitioners ' position as ex proprietors	 with their present position as raiyat in 560 respect of the land on which the buildings stand. The High Court has drawn the conclusion from the decision of this Court in K. C. Gajapati Narayan Deo vs The State of Orissa	 (1) and has observed that whether the buildings in question vested in the Government	 on the vesting of the estate under section 3 of the Act	 world depend not upon whether it formed part of the estate acquired by the Government but on the	 purpose for which the buildings wore used by the proprietors. As the buildings in question had been primarily used as office or Katcheri for the collection of rent or for the use of servants or for storing grains by way of rent in kind	 the buildings will vest in the Government on the vesting of the estate itself. In our opinion	 this conclusion drawn by the High Court from the decision of this Court is not well founded in law. The High Court draw its conclusions from the following observations of this Court in the aforesaid case at Pages 25 26. "Assuming that in India there is no absolute rule of law that whatever is affixed to or built on the soil becomes a part of it and is subject to the same rights of property as the soil itself	 there is nothing in law which prevents the State legislature from providing as a part of the estates abolition scheme that buildings	 lying within the ambit of an estate and used primarily for management or administration of the estate	 would vest in the Government as appurtenances to the estate itself. This is merely ancillary to the acquisition of an estate and forms an integral part of the abolition scheme. Such acquisition would come within article 31 (2) of the Constitution and if the conditions laid down in clause (4) of the article are complied with	 it would certainly attract the protection afforded by that clause. Compensation has (1) 	 561 been provided for these buildings in section 26(2)(iii) of the Act and the annual rent of these buildings determined in the prescribed manner constitutes one of the elements for computation of the gross asset of an estate. " The observations quoted above of this Court have reference to the following definition of 	homestead ' in el. (i) of section 2 of the Act: "homestead ' means a dwelling house used by the Intermediary for the purpose of his own residence or for the purpose of letting out on rent together with any courtyard	 compound	 garden	 orchard and outbuildings attached thereto and included any tank	 library and place of worship appertaining to such dwelling house but does not include any building comprised in such estate and used primarily as office or kutchery for the administration of the estate on and from the is day of January	 1946". it will appear from this definition that the Legislature placed a proprietor 's homestead ' in two categories	 namely (1) a dwelling house used by the Intermediary for his own purposes and (2) any building comprised in such estate and used primarily as office or. Katcheri for the administration of the estate on and from the list day of January	 1946. In respect of first category the Act provides in a. 6 that portion of the homestead shall be deemed to be settled by the State with the Intermediary	 who will continue to hold it as a tenant under the State Government	 subject to the payment of fair and equitable groundrent	 except where under the existing law no rent is payable in respect of homestead lands. It will be noticed further that the second category in the definition of homestead	 which has not been permitted to the outgoing 562 Intermediary has reference to "any building comprised in such estate". It has no reference to any building standing on rayati holding or a portion thereof. This becomes further clear with reference to the provisions of a. 5	 which lays down the consequences of vesting of an estate in the State. Under cl (a) of section 5	 the entire estate	 including all kinds of lands described in meticulous details	 and other non raiyati lands vest absolutely in the State Government. This Court	 while dealing with the constitutionality of the Act	 was not concerned with raiyati lands. Its observations had reference only to such buildings as stood upon the proprietor 's private lands like peel	 seer	 Zirat	 etc.	 whicl	 were in his possession as proprietor or as tenure bolder. It is thus clear that the very basis of the judgment of the High Court is entirely lacking. That the High Court was not unaware of this distinction becomes clear from the following passage in its judgment: "Doubtless	 Ryoti lands are excluded from the scope of this clause. But buildings and structures standing on Ryoti lands and in the possession of the proprietor are not expressly saved. " The first sentence quoted above is correct	 but not the second. 'I here is no question of expressly saving structures on ratyati lands	 when it is absolutely clear that raiyati lands are not the subject matter of legislation by the Act. The same remarks apply to the reference in section. 26 (b) (iii). Section 26 begins with the words 	for the purpose of this chapter"	 namely	 Chapter V	 headed "Assessment of Compensation". Reading section 26 as a whole it is absolutely clear that for the purpose of assessment of the compensation payable to the outgoing proprietor or tenure holder	 of the estate to be acquired	 gross assets have to be determined	 by aggregating the rents payable by 563 tenure holders or under tenure holders and raiyats. It is	 thus	 clear that the rent payable by the appellants as raiyats in respect of the disputed lands would form part of the assets which have to be included in the gross assets in determining compensation. But that does not mean that the interests of raiyats also have become vested in the State as a result of the notification under. 3	 read with section 5. For the reasons aforesaid	 it must be held that the appellant 's raiyati interests in the lands and in the buildings standing on those lands have not been affected by the abolition of his interest as proprietors	 and that the State authorities had illegally taken possession of those. The appeal is accordingly allowed with costs here and below. Appeal allowed.

The appellants held the Paikpara estate as proprietors. They had purchased the properties in question comprising raiyati lands with certain buildings thereon from the raiyat. Thus the proprietors became occupancy raiyat8 under the tenure holders or sub proprietors. By virtue of a notification issued under section 3 of the Orissa Estates Abolition Act	 1951	 the Paikpara estate vested in the State of Orissa. But the interest of tenure holders and sub proprietors within the estate had not been taken over under the provisions of the Act: 553 The said buildings on the lands of the occupancy holdings were used as Katcheri houses by the proprietors for the administration of their estates. The state officials took possession of these buildings situated on the raiyati land. The appellants made an application to the collector	 Puri	 for vacant possession of the lands and the buildings. The Collector did not concede the demand and held that the occupancy holding was situated within the tenure held under the proprietors and lay within the geographical limits of the estate which had vested in the Government. The High Court dismissed the writ petition of the appellant under article 226 on the ground that the question raised was practically concluded by the Supreme Court in K. C. Gajapati Narayan vs Deo State of Orissa. The appellants came up in appeal on a certificate granted by the High Court. Held	 that the appellants ' raiyati interests in the lands and in the buildings standing on those lands had not been affected by the abolition of their interests as proprietors	 and the State Authorities had illegally taken possession of them. Held	 further	 that the Orissa Estates abolition Act	1951	 was intended to abolish all proprietors	sub proprietors	 tenureholders	 with a variety of names	 but did not touch the interest of the raiyat. Hence though these lands with buildings was situate geographicaiy within the ambit of the appellant 's estate	 they were not part of the estate. The appellant held those properties with the buildings not as proprietors as such	 but as raiyats. Held	 also	 that the conclusion drawn by the High Court from the decision in K. C. Gajapati Narayan Deo vs The State of Orissa is not well founded. The observation of this Court on which it drew its conclusion had reference to the definition of 'home stead ' in cl. (1) of section 2 of the Act. This court while dealing with the constitutionality of the Act	 in the above case	 was not concerned with raiyati lands. Its observations had reference only to such buildings as stood upon the proprietor 's private land	 which were in his possession as proprietor or as tenure holder. K. C. Gajapati Narayan Deo vs The State of Orissa; 	 	 not applicable.