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Section 236: Land to be sold free of encumbrances

The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan (the "updated" English file), with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 9 of 2022.

A Rajasthan Land Revenue (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2025 (Bill No. 7 of 2025) inserts section 100-A (Government land placed at the disposal of RIICO for industrial areas) and clause (xvii-a) in section 261(2). Its Act number and assent could not be confirmed from an official source; these changes are not shown in this text.

This copy does not print the Chapter headings of the Act and contains many typing errors (for example "swim partition" and "audible estate" in section 186); the text is reproduced as printed.

(1) Land sold underthe last preceding section shall be sold free of all encumbrances, and allcontractspreviously made by any person other than the purchaser in respect of southland, shall become voidable at the opts-on of the purchaser at the auction sale.

(2) Nothing son sub-section (1) applies to lands held under bonafede leases, temporary or perpetual for the erect son of dwelling-houses or manufactures, or for gardens, tanks, canals places of worship or cremation or burial grounds, such land continuing to be used for the purpose specified in such leases.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the State Government may, at any time before the sale has been made, direct that it be made subject touch interesting or rights in land created by the holder thereof, or any person through whom he claims, as set thinks fit.

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