Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 478 · Decided 5 May 1997
State of Kerala and ORS. v. M. Bhaskaran Pillai and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 478 · [1997] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 87
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3628/1997
- Decided
- 5 May 1997
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, D.P. WADHWA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Land Acquisition Act Section 16
Headnote
B Kera/a Land Assignment Act, 1960 : Land acquil·ed in 1952 under Land Acquisition Act-Balance land remained unutilised-Govemment selling the land in 1979 to erstwhile land- c owner at ·the same rate at which compensation for acquired land was awarded-Sale interdicted in Writ in the light of the AcbHeld order of High Court is justifieti-By operation of s.16 of Land Acquisition Act, 1894, acquired land vested in State-Land if not D required for any other public purpose should. be put to public auction and the amount so fetched can be utilised for public
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