Supreme Court of India

Nand Kishore Gupta & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 11 S.C.R. 356

Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph JJ.

Decided 8 September 2010

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From the headnote

Land Acquisition Act, 1894- s. 4(1) r!w. ss. 17(1) and (4); s. 6(1) rlw ss. 17(1) and (4); s. 5A and Parts II and VII - Acquisition of land on urgent basis for a project of development and construction of Expressway- Project granted to a company - Validity of acquisition under Part II and validity of invoking urgency provision dispensing with enquiry uls. 5A - Held: acquisition of the land under Part II was correct o as the same was for the public purpose and was not for a private company - In the facts and circumstances of the case, the acquisition cannot be said to be a colourable exercise

Authorities it was built on

2007 Rakesh Kumar Jain and Anr. v. Stateof U.P. Thr. Collector and Anr. cited by 24
1960 Babu Barkya Thakur v. State of Bombay and Others cited by 23
2002 First Land Acquisition Collector v. Nirodhi Prakash Gangoli and Anr. cited by 8
1996 The Naihati Municipality and Ors. v. Chinmoyee Mukherjee and Ors. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2017 M/s. Meena Devi Jindal Medical Institute & Research Centre v. Lt. Governor, Delhi & Ors. relied on
2016 Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal & Ors. relied on
2024 Kali Charan and Others v. State of U.P. and Others referred to
2021 Jaypee Kensington Boulevard Apartments Welfare Association & Ors. v. Nbcc (india) Ltd. & Ors. referred to
2015 Savitri Devi v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2012 Darshan Lal Nagpal (dead) by L.rs. v. Government of Nct of Delhi and Others referred to
2011 Sri Radhy Shyam (d) through Lrs. & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Ors. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 5 referred to

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