Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 531 · Decided 2 August 2011
State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr v. Medha Patkar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 531 · [2011] 9 S.C.R. 664
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6229/2011
- Decided
- 2 August 2011
- Bench
- J.M. PANCHAL, DEEPAK VERMA, B.S. CHAUHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act
Headnote
LAND ACQUISITION: Acquisition of land to set up canals - Compensation - 'Canal affected persons' - After construction of Indira Sagar Project and Omkareshwar Dam, land acquired for setting up canals - Writ petition claiming full benefits of Rehabilitation 0 and Resettlement Policy framed Projects, for canal affected persons also - Held: This Court in Narmada Bachao Ando/an-I has held that 'canal affected persons' cannot be put at par with 'submergence affected persons' - It was not permissible for the High Court to take a contrary view E - The definition of 'oustee' under the
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