Supreme Court of India

The Land Acquisition Officer, Kammarapally Village, Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh v. Nookala Rajamallu and Ors.

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Bench Dooraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.

Decided 21 November 2003

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From the headnote

Land Acquisition Act, 1894 : Section 23-Land acquisition-Compensation-Awarding of Relevant factors to be considered-Held: Where large area was acquired, rate at which small plots were sold not a safe criterion to fix compensation However, where there was no. material to determine marke/ value, prices paid for small plots maybe taken as compensation to fix market value of the land acquired-Market value of the land on the date of acquisition a relevant factor-Necessary deductions for the formation of roads and other civic amenities, laying out roads, drains, sewers, water and electricity…

Authorities it was built on

1959 The Management of Ranipur Colliery v. Bhuban Singh and Others cited by 37
1992 Satrucharla Chandrasekhar Raju v. Vyricherla Pradeep Kumar Dev and Anr. cited by 12
1995 K. S. Shivadevamma and Ors. Etc. v. Assistant Commissioner and Land Acquisition Officer and Anr. cited by 9

Where later benches applied it

2011 Special Land Acquisition Officer and Anr. v. M.K. Rafiq Saheb relied on
2011 Chandrashekar (d) by Lrs. & Ors. v. Land Acquisition Officer & Anr. referred to
2011 Trishala Jain and Anr. v. State of Uttaranchal and Anr. referred to
2014 Union of India v. Raj Kumar Baghal Singh (dead) Th. Lrs. & Ors. mentioned
2010 Radha Mudaliyar v. Spl. Tahasildar (land Acq.), T.N.H. Board mentioned
2009 C.R. Nagaraja Shetty v. Spl. Land Acq. Officer & Estate Officer. & Anr. mentioned
2007 Nelson Fernandes and Ors. v. Spl. L.A.O. South Goa and Ors. mentioned
2005 Ranvir Singh and Anr. v. Union of India mentioned
2005 Union of India v. Pramod Gupta (d) by Lrs. and Ors. mentioned
2005 Viluben Jhalejar Contractor (d) by Lrs. v. State of Gujarat mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to · 7 mentioned

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