Supreme Court of India

Anjani Molu Dessai v. State of Goa & Anr.

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Reported as [2010] 14 S.C.R. 997
Bench R. V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik JJ.
Decided 7 December 2010

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the averaging of the prices under the two Sale Deeds was not justified.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

LAND ACQUISITION ACT, 1897: ss. 23, 23-(1- ), 23(5) and 28 - Acquisition of land - c Compensation - Comparable sale transactions - Averaging · method - Explained - Held: Legal position is that even where · there are several exemplars with reference to similar lands, usually the highest of the exemplars, which is a bona fide transaction, will be considered - Where, however, there are . 0 several sales of similar lands whose prices range in a narrow bandwidth, the average thereof can be taken, as representing the market price - But where the values disclosed in respect of two sales are markedly

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