MANCHEGOWDA ETC. vs STATE OF KARNATAKA ETC.

The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Sections 4 & 5 of the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfers of Certain Lands) Act, 1978, affirming that the Act applies only to transfers of granted lands that were voidable at the commencement of the Act. The Court clarified that transfers made in breach of the prohibition are valid if the transferee's title was perfected before the Act came into force. The Court dismissed the appeals, confirming that granted lands transferred before the Act's commencement are outside its purview.