Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 864 · Decided 9 September 2016
Delhi Development Authority v. Sukhbir Singh & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 864 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 227
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5811/2015
- Decided
- 9 September 2016
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, R.F. NARIMAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 31, 12(2)
Headnote
Right to Fair Co111pensation and Transparency in Land Acquisitio11, Rehabilitatio11 and Resettlemem Act, 2013 - s. 24(2) - Land acquisition pro.ceedings shall be deemed to have lapsed - Construction of - Held: &ate has no business to expropriate jiwn a citizen his property if an award has been physical possession of !a11d and payment of co111pe11sation have not been taken for a period of five years or more - Section gets attracted if the acquisition proceeding is not co111pleted within five years after pronouncement of the award, either because physical possession of the land has not
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