Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 28 · Decided 25 January 1972
Tribeni Devi and ORS. v. Collector of Ranchi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 28 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 208
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 661/1967
- Decided
- 25 January 1972
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4
Headnote
Land Acquisition Act (1 of 1894)-Compensation-Principles for determing. According to the general principles set out in sections 23 and 24 of the Land Acquision Act, 1894, for determining compensaticm, the com· pensation payable to the owner of the land is the market value which is from a willing· purchaser; but since it _may not be possible to ascertain this with any amount of precision the authority charged wtth the duty to award compensation is bound to make an estimate judged by an objective standard. The land acquired, has, therefore, to be valued not only
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