Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 249 · Decided 14 February 1996
Balmokand Khatri Educational and Industrialtrust, Amritsar v. State of Punjab and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 249 · [1996] 2 S.C.R. 643
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2684/1981
- Decided
- 14 February 1996
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, S. SAGHIR AHMAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4, 4(1)
Headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Sections 4( 1), 5-A, 6, 9, 17(4}-Acquisition of land for the purpose of C allotting house sites to the poo1~Held, exercise of power under S.17(4) in not conducting an enquily as contemplated under S.5-A cannot be stTUck down when Govemment was of opinion that it house site to the po01~Simply because pmtly retained possession of acquired land, the acquisition cannot be said to be bad in law. Chameli Singh & Ors. Etc. v. State of U.P. & Anr., (1996) 1 SCALE 101, relied on. Narayan Govind Gavate etc. v. State Maharashtra, (1977] 1 SCR 763,
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