Supreme Court of India
Government of Nct of Delhi and Anr. v. Sudesh Verma and Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court declaring that the land acquisition proceedings with respect to the land in question has lapsed under Section 24(2) of the Act, 2013 is unsustainable and the same deserves to be quashed and set aside and is accordingly quashed and set aside.
Judgment, page 5
From the headnote
Right to Fair Compensation and T ranspar ency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013: s.24(2) – High Court declared that the acquisition of lands in question deemed to have lapsed under s.24(2) of the Act, 2013 – Held: High Court failed to notice and consider the specific case on behalf of the appellants that at the r elevant time, the possession could not be taken over due to the pending pr oceedings at the instance of the landowners challenging the acquisition pr oceedings, which ended upto this Court – The original landowners failed in challenge to the acquisition
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