Supreme Court of India

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. v. Tarun Pal Singh & Ors.

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Reported as [2017] 14 S.C.R. 202
Bench Arun Mishra and Mohan M. Shantanagoudar JJ.
Decided 15 November 2017

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the decision of the High Court carmot be said to be sustainable, and the same is hereby set aside.

Judgment, page 30

From the headnote

Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013: ss. 24(J)(b) and proviso to s.24(2) - Whether Proviso to sub- section (2) of s. 24 governs sub-section (l)(b) of s. 24 or is confined to sub-section 24(2) alone - Held: ss.24(1) and 24(2) operate in two different fields - The proviso is only an exception to the main provision - For applicability of the proviso, the case has to be covered by s.24(2)- The object of the proviso is to give benefit of computation of compensation to all landholders and to save land acquisition proceedings -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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