Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 478 · Decided 26 April 2022
Kalyani (Dead) Through LRS. & Ors v. The Sulthan Bathery Municipality & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 478 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 849
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3189/2022
- Decided
- 26 April 2022
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, VIKRAM NATH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 300A
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art. 300A-No person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law - Right to compensation to the farmers for the land acquired - Held: Art. 300A clearly mandates that no person shall be deprived of his property save facts, appellants are farmers - They gave their agricultural land to Panchayat/Municipality for being utilized for the construction of road, on assurance that they would be given compensation, however the same was not given - Land was part of their livelihood - Depriving
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