Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 177 · Decided 22 August 1972
Hukam Chand ETC. v. Union of India & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 177 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 896
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1031/1967
- Decided
- 22 August 1972
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, HANS RAJ KHANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954- S.40--Rule making power-Does not confer power to nuike rules retro­ actively, Rule making:--Retroactive rule making-Provision for laying on the - Table 11:ould not prevent courts from deciding rule ultra vires. Rule 49 of the framed in exercise of the powers conferred by S.40 of the Act, provided that displaced person having verified claim· in respect of a,Rncultural land. had to be, as far as possible, paid con1pensation by al!o(;ncnt of agricultural land. By amendment No. XXXIX dated Feb­ ruary 1960.
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