State Has Duty to Inform Farmers of Right to Seek Enhanced Compensation in Land Acquisition Matters: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court recently held that applications seeking redetermination of compensation under Section 28-A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 cannot be rejected on hyper-technical grounds such as non-filing of a certified copy. The Court emphasized that Section 28-A is a beneficial provision enacted to remove inequality in compensation among landholders and must be interpreted liberally to fulfill its purpose. Farmers who lose their sole source of livelihood due…
