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Delhi Development Authority v. Tejpal & Ors.

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Reported as [2024] 5 S.C.R. 1211
Bench Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan JJ.
Decided 17 May 2024

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What the Court ordered

We hold that subsequent change of law will not be attracted unless a case is pending before the competent court awaiting its final adjudication.

Judgment, page 40

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the appellants made out sufficient cause for condonation of delay on the grounds of subsequent change of law brought in by Indore Development Authority v. Shailendra [2018] 2 SCR 1 and Indore Development Authority v. Manoharlal [2020] 3 SCR 1, public interest and justice, COVID-19 pandemic, suppression of material facts by the landowners, leeway to be granted to government entities etc. Headnotes † Land Acquisition – Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s.24(2) –

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