Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 108 · Decided 9 February 2023
Government of NCT of Delhi & ANR. v. Shakeel Ahmed & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 108 · [2023] 1 S.C.R. 395
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 739/2023
- Decided
- 9 February 2023
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 365, 366; Land Acquisition Act Section 24(2)
Headnote
Land Acquisition - Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 - s.24(2) - Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - There was ownership dispute with regard to the land in question - High Court without going into that in the case of Pune Municipal Corporation, allowed writ petition preferred by respondent No.1 and declared that the acquisition proceedings were deemed to have lapsed u/s.24(2) of the Act, 2013 - Held: The High Court ought to have first decided the ownership dispute and thereafter ought to
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