Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 500 · Decided 11 August 2010
Chaturbhuja Modi and ORS. v. State of Orissa and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 500 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 849
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 940/2004
- Decided
- 11 August 2010
- Bench
- MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA, ANIL R. DAVE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4
Headnote
A B Land Acquisition Act, 1894: Acquisition of large tract of land - Compensation - Determination of market value - C Comparable sale - Criteria for relying on sale deeds - Held: Sale deed by which a very small piece of land was sold cannot be made the basis for determining the market value of the deed which was proximate to the date of s.4 notification and a/so in geographical proximity to D the acquired land can be made the basis - Where the market value of large block of land is determined on the basis of sale · transactions for smaller property, appropriate deduction has to be
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