Supreme Court of India

Land Acquisition Officer-cum-dswo, A.P. v. B.V. Reddy and Sons

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Reported as [2002] 1 S.C.R. 1041
Bench G.B. Pattanaik, S.N. Phukan and S.N. Variava JJ.
Decided 14 February 2002

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land Acquisition Act, 1894: Section 25 (as it stood prior lo its amendment by Act 68 of I 984). Land Acquisition-Amount of compensation-Maximum limit-Held, The compensation cannot be in excess of the amount claimed by the claimant but in no case would it be less than that awarded by the Collector under S.9. Section 25-Nature of-Procedural or substantive-Held, ls substantive in nature. Interpretation of Statutes: Substantive provision -Prospective or retrospective-Held, substantive provision cannot be retrospective in nature unless the provision itself so indicates. c The land belonging to the

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