Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 4 · Decided 19 January 1954
Waryam Singh and Another v. Amarnath and ANOTHER.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 4 · [1954] 1 S.C.R. 565
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 64/1953
- Decided
- 19 January 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, VIVIAN BOSE, GHULAM HASAN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 227, 226
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 565 below· observe that it is common knowledge that since the end of the war land, particularly around Calcutta, has increased enormously in value and might still further increase very considerably in value ·when the pace of industrialisation increases. Any principle part of proviso (b) to section 8 of the impugned Act which fixes the market value on December 31, 1946, as the maximum compensation for lands acquired under it offends against the provisions of article 31 (2) and is unconstitutional and void. The appeal is dismissed with costs. Appeal
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