Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 99 · Decided 3 May 1979
Gujarat State Transport Corporation, ETC. v. Valji Mulji Soneji and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 99 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 905
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2316/1969
- Decided
- 3 May 1979
- Bench
- D.A. DESAI, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 10; Land Acquisition Act Section 4
Headnote
STATE TRANSPORT CORPORATION, ETC. A v. V ALJI MULJI SONEJI AND ORS. May 3, 1979 [D. A. DESAI AND 0. CHINNAPPA REDDY, JJ.J Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Sections 4 am! 6-Validity of Section 6 Notifi­ cation atruck down by the Supremt Court after 13 years of legal battle inter· by the postulate that "every statutory power n1ust be exercised reasonabl_v"-E!Ject of the Land Acquisition (Amendment and Validation) Act 1967 introducing amendments to Secrion 4(2) and proviso to Section 6. Legtil Rcprt·:.entatives to be brought on record-Civil Procedure Code,
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