Supreme Court of India
Sooraram Pratap Reddy & Ors. v. District Collector, Ranga Reddy Distt. & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the action of the State in initiating acquisition proceedings for establishing and developing infrastructure project cannot be D held contrary to law or objectionable.
Judgment, page 75
From the headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - Part II, ss. 4 and 6 - Land acquisition - For development of infrastructure of city - The c project for the development was integrated involving State agency as well as private company - Acquisition challenged as illegal, malafide and not meant for 'public purpose' - Held: Land acquisition proceedings were not illegal, or in colourable exercise of power - Government was right in forming an opinion 0 as to public purpose - Development of infrastructure is legal and legitimate 'public purpose' for exercising power of eminent ~ domain - An integrated and indivisible
Authorities it was built on
- 1950 Chiranjit Lal Chowdhuri v. The Union of India and Others.
- 1960 Babu Barkya Thakur v. State of Bombay and Others
- 1997 West Bengal Housing Board and Ors. v. Brijendra Prasad Gupta and Ors.
- 1966 Arnold Rodricks & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- 1967 Deputy Commissioner and Collector, Kamrup & Ors. v. Durga Nath Sarma
- 1961 R. L. Arora v. State of U. P.
- 1960 Pandit Jhandu Lal & Ors. v. The State of Punjab & Ors.
- 1955 The State of Bombay v. Ali Gulshan
- 1996 Laxmanrao Bapurao Jadhav and Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 1954 The State of Bombay v. Bhanji Munji and Another
Where later benches applied it
- 2016 Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
- 2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors
- 2019 State of Bihar & Ors. v. The Bihar Secondary Teachers Struggle Committee, Munger & Ors.
- 2012 Surinder Singh Brar and Others Etc.etc. v. Union of India and Others
Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to
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