Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 333 · Decided 10 July 2000
Piara Singh v. State of Punjab and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 333 · [2000] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 464
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1911/1990
- Decided
- 10 July 2000
- Bench
- AJAY PRAKASH MISRA, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1954: Sections 25(2) and 33. Power-Exercise of_:._Land sold to auction-purchaser who did not raise any objection regarding area of land-There was no clerical or arithmetical mistake-However, after 23 years auction-purchaser applied for fresh which was allowed in appeal-Tenant's appeal D challenging the corrigendum under S.33 dismissed by Financ/al Commissioner-Correctness of-Held; The order issuing the corrigendum is grossly arbitrary-Hence, High Court erred in upholding the order of Financial Commissioner-Displaced Persons
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