Supreme Court of India

The Secretary, the Department of Land and Building and Ors. v. Anjeet Singh (dead) through Lrs. and Anr.

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Reported as [2022] 15 S.C.R. 678
Bench M. R. Shah and M. M. Sundresh JJ.
Decided 24 November 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, present appeal succeeds.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s.24(2) – High Court relied upon its earlier decision in the case of Jagjeet Singh & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors., in which it had relied on the decision of Supreme Court in the case of Pune Municipal Corporation and Anr. v. Harakchand Misirimal Solanki and Ors. – High Court without entering into the question of possession, declared that th e acquisition with respect to land in question is deemed to have lapsed u/s.24( 2) of the Act, 2013 as the compensation with respect t o the land

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