Supreme Court of India

Manoj Kumar Etc. Etc. v. State of Haryana and Others Etc. Etc.

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Bench Arun Mishra and Mohan M. Shantanagoudar JJ.
Decided 13 September 2017

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court could not have followed the judgment in a blind manner as done without due consideration of various aspects.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Land Acquisition Act, 1894: ' Determination of compensation - Basic principle before placing reliance on the previous award/judgment or comparable sales - High Court relied upon a judgment in which for the _acquisition of lana in the year 1999, exemplar of 1997 was relied upon - Held: The High Court passed the judgment in a blind manner - It was incumbent upon the High Court to take into consideration various transactions that were on record, entered into before the date of issuance of Notification under s.4 of the Act - High Court could not have placed an outright reliance on the decision of…

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