Supreme Court of India

Urban Improvement Trust, Bikaner v. Gordhan Dass (d) through Lrs. & Others

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Reported as [2023] 14 S.C.R. 520
Bench Hrishikesh Roy and Manoj Misra JJ.
Decided 19 October 2023

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the requirements of the law were met when notices were served upon the recorded owners as per the record- of-rights.

Judgment, page 47

From the headnote

Issue for consideration: Whether land acquisition proceedings can be declared null and void for failure to give notice u/s.52(2) of the Rajasthan Urban Improvement Act, 1959 to the owners who had purchased the land two years earlier through registered sale deeds, before the initiation of the land acquisition proceedings, even though the name of original khatedaar was refl ected in the Revenue records; whether the civil court has jurisdiction to grant injunction as s. 207 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act , 1955 bars jurisdiction of civil court in respect of agricultural land; and whether the suit

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