land acquisition compensation Archives

Land Acquisition Compensation Rate | ‘11 years gap pretty large’: Supreme Court reduces 15% annual increase to 8%

Supreme Court considered what would be fair and just compensation to do justice between the parties so that landowners get a fair and reasonable compensation for losing their 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 District Court

Delay in land acquisition compensation; Gurgaon District Court attaches Executive Engineer’s office

‘The bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.' Gurgaon Civil Court orders attachment of the office of Executive Engineer, PWD (B&R) due to delay in compensation against land acquired in 1966.