Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 54 · Decided 18 February 1971
Bachan Singh & ORS. v. State of Punjab & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 54 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 762
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1/1970
- Decided
- 18 February 1971
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 31(2), 32, 14; Land Acquisition Act Section 3(a)
Headnote
SINGH & ORS. v. STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS. February 18, 1971 [S. M. SIKRI, CJ., G. K. MITTER, K. S. HEGDE, A. N. GROVER AND P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, JJl Punjab Deve/opmen~ of Damaged Areas Act (10 of 1951 )-If viola­ Jive of Arts. 14, 19(1)(/) and (g) and 31(2) of the Constitution. I.n order Deve­ lopment of Damaged Areas Act, 1951. Under s. 2(d) of the Act the State Government declared by a Notification that the entire area within the walled city of Amritsar to be damaged area. The Improvement Trust formulated certain schemes wh oh were sanctioned by the State Govern­
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