Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 204 · Decided 8 February 1996
Sanjeevanar Medical and Health Employees Co-Operative Housing Society v. MOHD. Abdul Wahab and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 204 · [1996] 2 S.C.R. 308
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5812/1983
- Decided
- 8 February 1996
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, S. SAGHIR AHMAD, G.B. PATTANAIK (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4(1), 6
Headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: Sections 4(1) and 6. ·Public Notice-Substance of notification-Time limit of 40 days­ Fixation of-By State amendment-Held : inconsistent with Central Amend~ ment, hence void-Publication of substance of notification after 40 days would not render it had already been taken, the land stood vested in the State free from all encumbrances. A notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 acquiring the land belonging to the respondents to provide house sites for the employees of the appellant-society, was published in
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