Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 763 · Decided 12 October 2015
The Working Friends Cooperative House Building Society LTD. v. The State of Punjab & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 763 · [2015] 12 S.C.R. 1096
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8468/2015
- Decided
- 12 October 2015
- Bench
- MADAN B. LOKUR, R.K. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4
Headnote
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013: s.24(2)-· Compensation was neither paid to the land owners nor was it deposited in the reference court - Therefore, 0 compulsory acquisition of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 lapses in view of the provisions of s. 24(2) of the Act of 2013 - Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Allowing the appeal, the Court E HELD: One of the requirements mentioned in F Section 24(2) of the Act is that the compensation should have either been paid to the land owner
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