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Definition :

Displaced person, According to the definition of the term in East Punjab Act XXXVI of 1949, a 'displaced person' means 'a landholder in the territories now comprised in the Province of Punjab in Pakistan or a person of the Punjab extraction who holds land in the (West Pakistan) and who has since the last day of March 1947, abandoned or has been made to abandon his land in the said territories on account of civil disturbances or the fear of such distur-bances, or the partition of the country', Munshi Ram v. Financial Commissioner, (1979) 1 SCC 471: AIR 1979 SC 588: (1979) 2 SCR 846.

Displaced person means any person who, on account of civil disturbances or of the fear of such disturbances in any area now forming part of Bangladesh, has, after the 14th day of April, 1957 but before the 25th day of March, 1971, left, or has been displaced from, his place of residence in such area and who has since then been residing in India. [Pharmacy Act, 1948, s. 32B(1)(c) Expl. (i)]