Supreme Court · 1986 INSC 188 · Decided 12 September 1986
State of U.P. ETC. v. SMT. Pista Devi & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1986 INSC 188 · [1986] 3 S.C.R. 743
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1495/1986
- Decided
- 12 September 1986
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, V. KHALID (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4, 5A, 6, 17(1)
Headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: ss. 4, 5A, 6, 17(1), (4) and 17(/A)~ Acquisition for urban housing-Urgency-Inquiry dispensed with­ Post-notification delay of one year in publishing declaration-Action '- whether vitiated-Whether Government can take possession of land, other than waste and arable. recommended to be followed by D other Development Authorities. The appellants are owners of arable land lying on the outskirts of. Meerut City. The land was sought to be acquired by tbe Meerut De­ velopment Authority for its scheme to provide housing accommodation to the
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