Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 375 · Decided 5 December 1990
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation LTD v. Yashwant Gajanan Joshi and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 375 · [1990] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 434
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5916/1990
- Decided
- 5 December 1990
- Bench
- S. RANGANATHAN, N.M. KASLIWAL, S.C. AGRAWAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226; Land Acquisition Act
Headnote
Petroleum and Minerals Pipeline (Acquisition of Right of User In Land) Act, 1962-Sections 2(a), 7 to 10--'Competent Authoricy' employee of contesting parties-Whether fit for appointment-Whether violative of principles of natural justice. The appellant corporation took steps under the Petroleum and of User in land) Act, 1962 for laying down pipelines for a project called the Bombay-Pone Pipeline Project. One Mrs. A.R. Gadre, Special Land Officer in the office of D Competent Authority was appointed as competent authority by the Government of India. One of the duties of the Competent
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