Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 534 · Decided 20 August 2010
Rajinder Kishan Gupta and ANR. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 534 · [2010] 10 S.C.R. 172
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6811/2010
- Decided
- 20 August 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act
Headnote
Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978: s. 45 - Acquisition of land for construction works relating to metro C railways in the metropolitan cities - Applicability of Land Acquisition Act - Held: s. 45 makes it clear that the authorities are free to apply the Metro Railways Act for such construction work, but at the same time, there is no specific prohibition in the Metro Railways Act from applying D the Land Acquisition Act to acquire any land for the said purpose - In view of urgency and in the absence of similar urgency clause in the Metro Railways Act as that of
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