Supreme Court of India
Special Land Acquisition Officer and Anr. v. M.K. Rafiq Saheb
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered view that the said deduction should be increased to 60%, which we find fair, just and reasonable in the circumstances.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: 252 Compensation - Determination of market value of land - Comparative sales method - High Court relied upon exemplar Ex.PS to determine the market value of compensation - Ex. P-5 related to a small piece of land, whereas the acquisition was of a larger piece of land - Whether Ex. P5 could be used to determine the market value of land - Held: It is not an absolute rule that when the acquired land is a large tract of land, sale instances relating to smaller pieces of land cannot be considered - There are certain circumstances when sale deeds of small pieces of fand
Authorities it was built on
- 1996 Smt. Basavva and Ors. Etc. v. The Spl. Land Acquisition Officer, and Ors.
- 2003 The Land Acquisition Officer, Kammarapally Village, Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh v. Nookala Rajamallu and Ors.
- 1991 Bhagawathulla Samanna and Ors. v. Special Tahsildar and Land Acquismon Officer Visakhapatnam Municipality, Visakhapatnam
- 1998 Central Bureau of Investigation v. V.C. Shukla and Ors.
- 2010 Anjani Molu Dessai v. State of Goa & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
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