Bat to acquisition of right over certain lands

Notwithstanding anything contained in any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas, no right shall accrue to any person in,- (a) land held or acquired in contravention of the provision of Section 20, or (b) land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for the Government or for any local authority or for a railway company, while such land remains the property of the Government or of any local authority or of a railway company, or (c) land recorded or demarcated as belonging to the Government or to a local authority which is used for any public works, such as a road, canal or embankment, or is required for the repair or maintenance of the same, while such land continues to be so used or required, or (d) a vacant holding retained by a village headman, mulraiyat and members of their family, or a landlord, or (e) village headman’s official holding, grazing land, jeharthan and burning and burial grounds.