Supreme Court of India
Manoj Kumar Etc. Etc. v. State of Haryana and Others Etc. Etc.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the High Court could not have followed the judgment in a blind manner as done without due consideration of various aspects.
Judgment, page 19
From the headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: ' Determination of compensation - Basic principle before placing reliance on the previous award/judgment or comparable sales - High Court relied upon a judgment in which for the _acquisition of lana in the year 1999, exemplar of 1997 was relied upon - Held: The High Court passed the judgment in a blind manner - It was incumbent upon the High Court to take into consideration various transactions that were on record, entered into before the date of issuance of Notification under s.4 of the Act - High Court could not have placed an outright reliance on the decision of
Authorities it was built on
- 1988 Chimanlal Hargovinddas v. Special Land Acquisition Officer, Poona, and Anr.
- 1996 Smt. Basavva and Ors. Etc. v. The Spl. Land Acquisition Officer, and Ors.
- 2014 Maj. Gen. Kapil Mehra & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr.
- 1993 Printers House Pvt. Ltd. v. Mst. Saidan(deceased) by L.R.
- 1997 Karan Singh and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Union of India
- 2010 Hirabai & Ors. v. L.A.O. Cum Asst. Commnr.
- 2005 Ranvir Singh and Anr. v. Union of India
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Union of India v. Premlata and Others
- 2025 Ram Kishan (since Deceased) through His Lrs Etc. v. State of Haryana & Ors.
- 2022 Ramrao Shankar Tapase v. Maharashtra Industrial Development Corpn. and Others
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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