fair compensation Archives

Punjab & Haryana HC grants bail in SC/ST Act case; Questions applicability of Act against accused belonging to deprived scheduled caste

Kerala HC deprecates State’s Evasive Tactics in Land Acquisition; Orders Fair Compensation to landholders, upholding Article 30(1-A)

“In the absence of any specific law enabling the acquisition of property belonging to a minority educational institution, it was not possible for the State to acquire the Venkateswara School’s land.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Procedural difficulties may affect quantum of compensation, not validity of land acquisition’; Bombay High Court refuses to interfere with proceedings of land acquisition

Bombay High Court refused to exercise its discretionary powers under Article 226 of Constitution of India keeping in view that the Bullet Train Project is an Infrastructural Project of national importance.

Case Briefs

Land owners cannot claim acquisition proceeding is lapsed u/s. 24(2) of Right to Fair Compensation Act where stay was obtained by them vide interim orders: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising of M. R. Shah* and B.V. Nagarathna, JJ., reversed the impugned judgment of Karnataka High Court

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | S. 28-A of Land Acquisition Act not an adversarial form of adjudication; fair compensation to be determined for all landowners

Punjab and Haryana High Court: This writ petition was filed before the Bench of G.S. Sandhawalia, J., against the award passed by