Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 368 · Decided 7 May 2014
Union of India & Ors v. Shiv Raj & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 368 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 751
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5478/2014
- Decided
- 7 May 2014
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, JASTI CHELAMESWAR, M.Y. EQBAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 5, 4
Headnote
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: s. 5-A - Right of land owners to fife objections - Held: The rule of natural justice is ingrained in the scheme of s. 5-A of A B c the Act with a view to ensure that before any person is deprived of his land by way of compulsory acquisition, he must get an opportunity of the State 0 Government and/or its agencies/instrumentalities to acquire the particular parcel of land - s. 5-A embodies a very just and wholesome principle that a person wflose property is being or is intended to be acquired should have a proper and reasonable opportunity of persuading the
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