Land Acquisition Act, 1984

The contractors, Orient Paper and Straw Products, had exclusive licences to cut bamboo in government forests under contracts that were to expire in September 1989. The Orissa Forest Produce (Control of Trade) Act, 1981 and its subsequent amendments (1987 and 1989) together with notifications dated 21 September 1988 res…

The appellants challenged High Court orders that allowed elected councillors, whose caste validity certificates were rejected by the Caste Scrutiny Committee, to retain their seats pending judicial review. Section 5B of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act provides that failure to submit a caste validity certificate wi…

The appellants, a partnership firm operating a sugar mill, challenged the compensation awarded for land acquired for the Hiwra Dam project, arguing that the market value of the land and the deductions for development costs were incorrectly determined by the High Court. The Supreme Court examined the reference court's v…

The Supreme Court examined the method for fixing market value of 90 acres of land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1984. The claimants relied on various sale deeds, including a recent high‑price transaction, while the State relied on mutation entries. The Court held that only bona‑fide sales of comparable land …

The Supreme Court heard a batch of appeals concerning compensation for lands acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 in Haryana. The Court examined the method of determining market value, the appropriateness of deductions for development costs, the use of the belting system, and the manner of applying annual infl…

The State of Haryana issued a Section 4 notification on 18‑Jan‑2001 to acquire land and invoked the urgency provisions of Section 17(1) and (4) without first tendering the statutorily required 80% compensation. A Section 6 declaration followed on 19‑Jan‑2001, but the land‑owners filed writ petitions challenging the not…

The Delhi Administration appealed a Delhi High Court order that had quashed amendments made by a 1989 notification to Rules 49, 63, 65, 67 and Form P‑5 of the Delhi Land Revenue Rules. The amendments excluded certain categories of land, such as "Extended Abadi", from being entered in the record‑of‑rights and annual reg…

The Ludhiana Improvement Trust acquired land from several owners but failed to pay the compensation awarded by the Land Acquisition Tribunal. The owners filed execution proceedings, leading to the attachment and auction of the property to M/s. Jagan Singh & Co. for Rs. 22.65 lakhs in 1992. The Trust later sought to set…