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Taking and retaining, the word 'taking and retaining' were used by s. 180 of the Act in an independent and exclusive sense. The former referred to taking of possession illegally and the latter to taking of possession legally but subsequent retaining of it illegally, Bhinka v. Charan Singh, AIR 1959 SC 960 (965): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 798. [U.P. Tenancy Act (17 of 1939), s. 180]