Supreme Court of India

Atma Singh (died) through Lrs. & Ors. v. State of Haryana & Anr

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Reported as [2007] 12 S.C.R. 1120

Bench G.P. Mathur J.

Decided 7 December 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that a deduction of 10% from the market value of the land, which has been atTived at by the High Court would meet the ends of justice.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Land Acquisition Act, 1894: c ss.4, 23(1- ) and 28-Acquisition of large tracts of land-For the purpose of setting up an industry-Market value-Ascertainment of-By placing reliance on exemplars of small pieces of land- .. Deduction of 33%from the market value on the ground that exemplars forming basis for ascertainment of market value were of small pieces of land-Propriety of-Held: Market value rightly assessed-Market value of small pieces of land can be used as a safe guide to determine the market value of large tracts of land when exemplars of large pieces of lands are not available-In the

Authorities it was built on

1966 Raghubans Narain Singh v. The Uitar Pradesh Government through Collector of Bijnor cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2024 Horrmal (deceased) through His Lrs & Ors. v. State of Haryana & Ors. relied on
2017 Bijender & Ors. v. State of Haryana & Anr. relied on
2013 Digamber & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors. relied on
2011 Chakas v. State of Punjab & Ors. relied on
2025 Ram Kishan (since Deceased) through His Lrs Etc. v. State of Haryana & Ors. referred to
2024 New Okhla Industrial Development Authority v. Harnand Singh (deceased) through Lrs & Ors. referred to
2023 Ravinder Kumar Goel v. The State of Haryana & Ors. referred to
2022 Ramrao Shankar Tapase v. Maharashtra Industrial Development Corpn. and Others referred to
2021 Ramesh Kumar V. Bhatinda Integrated Cooperative Cotton Spinning Mill and Ors. v. Bhatinda Integrated Cooperative Cotton Spinning Mill and Ors. referred to
2021 U.P. Awas Evam Vikash Parishad v. Asha Ram (d) Thr. Lrs & Ors. referred to
2011 Chandrashekar (d) by Lrs. & Ors. v. Land Acquisition Officer & Anr. referred to
2011 Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority v. Gobinda Chandra Makal & Anr referred to
2011 Valliyammal and Another v. Special Tehsildar (land Acquisition) and Another Etc. referred to
2011 Trishala Jain and Anr. v. State of Uttaranchal and Anr. referred to

Of those, 4 relied on · 10 referred to

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