Ghatwali Tenure

Ghatwali tenure, Ghatwali tenures originated dur-ing the Moghul period, that although the services included police duties, they were in their origin just as much of a military as a civil character and that the tenure could be granted by the ruling power directly to Ghatwal who was to render the services so as to establish a direct privity between the ruling power and the Ghatwal or it could be granted by the Zamindar for the protection of his Zamindari or for enabling him to render the police and military services to the ruling power which he was bound to do under the terms of the grant of Zamindari to him, Rudreswari Prasad Sinha v. Rani Probhabati, AIR 1952 SC 1 (4): 1952 SCR 64.