Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Ors. v. Dhanwanti Devi and Ors.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 32

Bench K. Ramaswamy, S. Saghir Ahmad and G.B. Pattanaik JJ.

Decided 21 August 1996

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court and the arbitrator com mitted manifest grave error of law in awarding solatium and interest on the compensation determined under Section 8 of the Act.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Land Laws: Jammu & Kashmir (Requisition and Acquisition of Immovable proper ty) Act, 1968: Sections 7 and 8. Acquisition of land-'--Solatiwn and interest-No express provision in Act for payment of-Held: Owner not entitled to solatium and interest as omission by Legislature was deliberate---Owner not entitled to interest in equity if stalltte under which land was acquired expressed contrary inten- ,.... tion--Ratio decidendi in Hori Kishan Klwsla's case not in conflict with " Satinder Singh's case-Nor did the fonner have the effect of ovemtling the latter-Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Ss.23( 1-

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