Land Acquisition (Companies) Rules, 1963

The Supreme Court examined the acquisition of about 1,000 acres of land in Singur, West Bengal for Tata Motors' small‑car project. The Court held that the acquisition was made at the instance of a private company, not for a public purpose, and that the State failed to follow the mandatory procedures under Part VII of t…

Raja Ram Jaiswal purchased land (Plot No. 26) to build a cinema theatre. The Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, opposing the cinema, sought acquisition of the same land for the purported public purpose of extending its Sangrahalaya, leading to a notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The notification w…

Fomento Resorts and Hotels Ltd. applied to acquire land owned by Gustavo Ranato da Cruz Pinto under Chapter VII of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The government issued a preliminary notification under Section 4 in October 1980, followed later by a Section 6 declaration after an agreement with the acquiring company. Th…

The Gujarat High Court set aside the acquisition of land in Surat for Larsen & Toubro Ltd.'s employee housing scheme, holding that the State had not complied with Rules 3 and 4 of the Land Acquisition (Companies) Rules, 1963 and that no notice under Section 9 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 had been served. The Supre…

The Bihar Finance Service House Construction Cooperative Society, a cooperative society of land‑less members, applied to the State Government for acquisition of 59.95 acres to provide housing. The Government issued a Section 4 notification, entertained objections under Section 5A, and then declared acquisition under Se…

The appellants, owners of agricultural land in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, challenged the State's acquisition of their land for a project of International Tractors Ltd. The State issued a notification under Section 4 and a declaration under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, entered into an agreement with the company…

The Anil Agarwal Foundation, a private company at the time of land acquisition, sought 6,000 acres of agricultural land in Odisha to establish a university. The State issued Section 4(1) notifications and proceeded with acquisition despite the company’s conversion to a public company occurring only after the notificati…

The case concerned the acquisition of about 105 acres of land in Manimajra, Chandigarh for the expansion of the Rajiv Gandhi Technology Park (Phase III). The acquisition was approved by the Adviser to the Administrator of the Union Territory based on reports of the Land Acquisition Officer (LAO), which the petitioners …

The Maharashtra government acquired land for Voltas Ltd. and issued an allotment order in 1969 restricting alienation without prior permission and mandating use for workers' housing. Voltas later obtained an exemption under the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976, to develop surplus land for a weaker‑section …

The Supreme Court examined the acquisition of land for the Yamuna Expressway project, where the State of Uttar Pradesh, through YEIDA, acquired over 1,600 hectares for an expressway and 25 million square metres for five industrial parcels. Petitioners argued that the acquisition was not for a public purpose, that it wa…

The State of Haryana acquired land in 1973 for a sheet‑glass factory and conveyed it to Northern Indian Glass Industries Ltd. (NIGI) under a deed that prohibited sale without the State’s written permission and required construction of the factory within a stipulated period. NIGI failed to build the plant, sold portions…

The Supreme Court examined a land acquisition dispute where the General Government Servants Co‑operative Housing Society Ltd. sought to acquire land for residential houses. The land had been sold by the Central Government to the first respondent, Wahab Uddin, after being declared evacuee property under the Displaced Pe…