Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 996 · Decided 3 September 2019
Union of India & ANR. v. Balwant Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 996 · [2019] 12 S.C.R. 78
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6981/2019
- Decided
- 3 September 2019
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, SURYA KANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 37; Land Acquisition Act Section 25
Headnote
National Highway Act, 1956 - s.3G(5) - Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - s.25 - Union of India contended that the impugned Judgment suffered from an error - It was contended that in the impugned judgment, the case of Madishetti Bala Ramul (D) through LRs v. The Land which applied only to the Land Acquisition Act and cannot be made applicable to the National Highways Act - Held: Union of India is right - Under the Land Acquisition Act an award that is made by the Land Acquisition is in the nature of an offer on behalf of the government and
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