Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 501 · Decided 20 September 2021
Shankarrao Bhagwantrao Patil ETC. v. The State of Maharashtra & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 501 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 239
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5712/2021
- Decided
- 20 September 2021
- Bench
- HEMANT GUPTA, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142; Land Acquisition Act Section 4
Headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - Compensation - Deduction towards development cost - Appellants' land acquired - Compensation awarded by Land Acquisition Collector - Dissatisfied, reference sought - Reference Court awarded compensation at the rate of Rs.70 per reduced the compensation to Rs.317/- per square meter (29 per square feet) - Held: Land in question was rocky and had a moorum soil - Such land is not cultivable - In the facts of the present case, deduction towards the development cost at the rate of 50% is warranted -
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