Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 815 · Decided 27 March 2025
Hiralal Motilal Parikh (Deceased Through Lrs) v. SPL. Laq Officer & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 815 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 1519
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1438/2016
- Decided
- 27 March 2025
- Bench
- J.K. MAHESHWARI, ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4
Headnote
Whether the compensation awarded by the Reference Court, marginally enhanced by the High Court along with other statutory benefits is fair and reasonable. Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - Compensation - Enhancement of - Document proximate to if can be considered as exemplar for determination of compensation: Held: Bona fide transaction of sale, if proximate to the land acquired and the date, in absence of any evidence that acquisition has not motivated the purchaser to pay a higher price on account of resultant improvement
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