Land acquisition will not lapse if relief is paid to treasury: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Friday reaffirmed its February 2018 ruling on Area 24 on land acquisition settlement awards, provided by a three-judge bench, led by Justice Arun Mishra, in the Indore Development Authority case.

A Constitution Bench, also led by Justice Arun Mishra, has overruled an earlier co-ordinate Bench judgment in the Pune Municipal Corporation case of 2014 under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehab and Resettlement Act of2013 The five-judge Bench was translating Section 24 (2) which worries land acquisition settlement awards made five years “prior or more” to the coming of existence of the 2013 Act, which changed the 1894 law. The brand-new Act, which originated on January 1, 2014 changed