Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 500 · Decided 15 April 2009
Karnataka Urban Water Supply & Drainage Board v. K.S. Gangadharappa & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 500 · [2009] 6 S.C.R. 250
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2547/2009
- Decided
- 15 April 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA, P. SATHASIVAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 23, 24, 25
Headnote
c Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - ss. 23, 24 and 25 - Compensation for land acquisition - Value of the potentiality of the land acquired - Determination of - Held : Generally \• rates fixed for small plots cannot be the basis for fixation of rate for there is no material available, 0 such comp.9rison can be done by the court - However, in such cases necessary deductions/adjustments have to be made - While determining potentiality there is bound to be some guess work - Market value has a definite concept and cannot be EWaluated without any
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