Certo Is this judgment real?
Beta, Supreme Court only. We check Supreme Court of India judgments only for now: a High Court citation reads "Not in our corpus", which never means it does not exist.

Supreme Court of India

SESHAN AND ORS. versus THE SPECIAL TEHSILDAR AND LAND ACOUISITION OFFICER, SIPCOT, PUDUKKOTTAJ

Decided
30 January 1996
Judges listed
K. RAMASWAMY, S. SAGHIR AHMAD, G.B. PATTANAIK (as the open data lists them; this may not name the whole bench)
Disposal
Appeal(s) allowed

Citations

Official
[1996] 1 S.C.R. 1058 · 1996 INSC 149
Not shown
1 other citation string that other judgments attach to this one, on evidence too thin or too divided to publish.

Cited by

Cited in 1 other Supreme Court judgment we hold.

Counted only in the Supreme Court judgments we hold whose text we could read, not in High Court judgments. We match each citation to a judgment automatically, so a citation we cannot match is not counted. "Cited" says only that a judgment refers to this one, not whether it followed, distinguished or overruled it.

The Court's text

Paragraphs from our copy of the Supreme Court Reports print, with the Court's own paragraph numbers, the printed page and, where printed, the margin letter. The Court did not number this judgment's paragraphs, so they are listed by page. Link to paragraph N with #para-N.

Leave granted. We have heard the learned counsel on both sides.

p. 1058, margin F

Notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 was published on 17th October, 1981. The possession of the land was taken in January 1982. The land Acquisition Officer in his award dated July 31, 1982 determined compensation @ Rs. 2,000 per acre. On reference, the civil Court by award and decree dated November 7, 1983 enhanced the compensation to Rs. 4,000 per acre. On appeal, the High Court by judgment and decree dated August, 9, 1989 enhanced the compensation to Rs.6,000 per acre and awarded interest under the unamended Act as per the State amendment, thus this appeal by special leave.

pp. 1058–1059, margin G

In view of the fact that the Land Acquisition officer has made the award on July 31, 1982, i.e., after the introduction of the Amendment Act 68 of 1984 on the floor of the Parliament, the claimants arc entitled to interest under Section 34@ 9% per annum from the date of taking possession till date of payment or deposit in the Court. They are entitled to interest @ 15% on compensation not paid or deposited after the expiry of one year. Equally so on the enhanced compensation from the respective dates till the date of deposit in the Court. Equally, solatium @ 30% under Section 23(2) is required to be deposited on the market value.

p. 1059, margin A

The appeal is accordingly allowed to the above extent. No costs. G.N. Appeal allowed.

p. 1059, margin C