Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 540 · Decided 23 August 2006
Ganpatibai and ANR. v. State of M.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 540 · [2006] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 215
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3609/2006
- Decided
- 23 August 2006
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4, 6
Headnote
B Land Acquisition Act, 1894-Sections 4, 6-Notification and declaration under-Challenged by filing civil suit-Held, Suit not maintainable-Remedy is by filing Writ petition-Gross delay in approaching Writ Court- -Writ C petition rightly dismissed-Delay and /aches. By virtue of a scheme Pursuant to the scheme, Notification under Section 4 of Land Acquisition Act, 1894 was issued on 16.9.1987 while the declaration under Section 6 was issued on 6.12.1988. D Certain land owners whose lands were acquired filed a suit in 1990. The Civil Judge, by order dated 16.3.2001, held the
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