Supreme Court of India

Udho Dass v. State of Haryana & Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 8 S.C.R. 900
Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and J.M. Panchal JJ.
Decided 21 April 2010

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that a landowner is entitled to say that if the compensation proceedings continued over a period B of almost 20 years as in the present case, the potential of the land acquired from him rhust also be adjudged keeping in view the development in the a 1 rea spread over the period of 20 years if the evidence so permits and cannot be limited to the near future alone.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Land Acquisition Act, 1894: Acquisition of land for setting up a housing project - Compensation - HELD: Once a conclusion is reached that there was the possibility of the acquired land being used for putting up buildings in the immediate or near future, such conclusion would be sufficient to hold that the acquired land had a building potentiality and proceed to determine its market value taking into account the increase in price attributable to such building potentiality - If the compensation proceedings continued over a period of almost 20 years, as in the instant case, the landowner is

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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