Supreme Court of India

Shankarrao Bhagwantrao Patil Etc. v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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Bench Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian JJ.
Decided 20 September 2021

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What the Court ordered

In the result appellant must be awarded compensation at Rs 7000 per acre subject to deduction or allowance of 25 per cent to account for land required to be set apart for roads, open spaces etc.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – Compensation – Deduction towards development cost – Appellants’ land acquired – Compensation awarded by Land Acquisition Collector – Dissatisfied, reference sought – Reference Court awarded compensation at the rate of Rs.70 per square feet – In appeal, High Court reduced the compensation to Rs.317/- per square meter (29 per square feet) – Held: Land in question was rocky and had a moorum soil – Such land is not cultivable – In the facts of the present case, deduction towards the development cost at the rate of 50% is warranted – Order of the Reference Court is…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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