Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 217 · Decided 9 February 1996
The Officer on Special Duty (Land Acquisition) and ANR. v. Shah Manilal Chandulal ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 217 · [1996] 2 S.C.R. 366
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3234/1996
- Decided
- 9 February 1996
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, G.B. PATTANAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act Section 5; Land Acquisition Act Section 4, 11, 18, 4(1)
Headnote
Land Laws : Land Acquisition Act, 1894-Sections 4, 11 and IS-Ac­ quisition of Land-Award-Application to the Collector/LAO for reference to C the Cowt-Rejection of the application on the ground of limitation-Validity of Limitation Act, 1963-Section 5-Extension of time limit under ce1tain to a Court-Meaning of the expression "Court"-Status of the Collect01~LAo-Held : Collec­ D tor/LAO, being a statut01y auth01ity and not a Court, Section 5 of the Limitation Act not applicable-Hence, application for reference is ba1Ted by Limitation under Section 18(1) of the Act.
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