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Supreme Court judgments on Section 6, Land Acquisition Act, 1894

17 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under Section 6 of this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

State of Haryana & Others vs Aalamgir & Others
SC · 18 March 2025
[2025] 3 S.C.R. 1460 : 2025 INSC 407
The present appeals assail the orders passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in several writ petitions in respect of acquisition of various parcels of land from time to time by issuance of notifications u/ss.4 and 6…
Horrmal (Deceased) Through His LRs & Ors. vs State of Haryana & Ors.
SC · 21 October 2024
[2024] 10 S.C.R. 1709 : 2024 INSC 797
(1) Whether the appellants are entitled to higher compensation for their acquired lands, and if so, to what extent; and (2) Whether the methodology for calculating the quantum of such compensation has been appropriately…
Delhi Development Authority vs Anita Singh & Ors.
SC · 1 May 2023
[2023] 5 S.C.R. 655 : 2023 INSC 473
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s. 24(2) – Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss. 4, 6, 11, 30, 31 – Respondent no.1 purchased a land – The said land…
Anil Agarwal Foundation etc. etc. vs State of Orissa and Ors.
SC · 12 April 2023
[2023] 8 S.C.R. 969 : 2023 INSC 361
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss. 4(1), 6, 44B – Land Acquisition Rules, 1963 – rr. 3 & 4 – Acquisition Proceedings – Allotment of land – To Private Company – For setting up of University – Undue Favour to Company – Non-c…
New Okhla Industrial Development Authority vs Omvir Singh & Ors.
SC · 15 December 2022
[2022] 17 S.C.R. 729 : 2022 INSC 1284
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: ss. 4, 6, 18 – Land acquisition – Enhancement of compensation – Land in question acquired for the planned development by the NOIDA, vide Notification dated 22.11.1982 – Award of compensation a…
Delhi Development Authority vs Damini Wadhwa & Ors.
SC · 4 November 2022
[2022] 16 S.C.R. 602 : 2022 INSC 1174
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s.24(2) – Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4, 6 – High Court declared that the acquisition w.r.t the lands in qu…
Jaspal Singh & Others vs The State of Haryana and Others
SC · 20 October 2022
[2022] 15 S.C.R. 670 : 2022 INSC 1126
Land Acquisition Act,1894 – ss.4,6,11 – Compensation – Enhancement of – Lands were acquired for Jhajjar Thermal Power Plant under the provisions of 1894 Act – Acquisition collector determined and awarded compensation @ R…
Kazi Moinuddin Kazi Bashiroddin & Ors. vs The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, through Its Senior Regional Manager Regional Office, Mtdc, Aurangabad
SC · 30 September 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 509 : 2022 INSC 1055
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4, 6 and 18 – Acquisition proceedings – Matter relating to payment of compensation – Approach of technicalities to be avoided – Case of MTDCrespondent no.1 that 50% of the amount of compen…
Delhi Administration Thr. Secretary, Land and Building Department & Ors. vs Pawan Kumar & Ors.
SC · 6 May 2022
[2022] 3 S.C.R. 791 : 2022 INSC 526
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss. 4 and 6 – Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s. 24(2) – Lapse of acquisition proceedings – Claim of – Respondent…
Delhi Development Authority vs Godfrey Phillips (I) Ltd and Ors.
SC · 6 May 2022
[2022] 19 S.C.R. 1193 : 2022 INSC 527
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 - s. 6, s.4, 5 - Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s. 24(2) –Original land owners entered into agreement to sell with…
Delhi Development Authority vs Bhim Sain Goel and Ors.
SC · 25 April 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 1164 : 2022 INSC 472
Land Acquisition Act, 1894: ss. 4, 6, 16 and 18 – Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 –s. 24(2) – Notification u/s 4 to acquire land of the responden…
Jai Parkash etc etc vs Union Territory, Chandigarh etc etc
SC · 10 March 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 767 : 2022 INSC 290
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4 and 6 – Acquisition of land – Determination of fair market value – Just compensation – Land Acquisition Officer assessed market value of the acquired lands @ Rs.6,87,837/- per acre – Ref…
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation & Ors. vs Vasant Mahadev Patil (Dead) through L.R.S & Ors.
SC · 14 February 2022
[2022] 16 S.C.R. 358 : 2022 INSC 179
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – s.19 – Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 – ss.126, 127 – Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4, 6, 1…
Walchandnagar Industries Ltd. vs The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
SC · 4 February 2022
[2022] 18 S.C.R. 826 : 2022 INSC 146
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 :ss. 4, 6, 17, 18, 23, 24 – Land acquisition – Determination of compensation in light of clauses “thirdly” and “fourthly” of s. 23 concerning ‘severance’ and ‘injurious affection’ respectively…
Union of India & Ors. vs Gopaldas Bhagwan Das & Ors.
SC · 4 February 2020
[2020] 3 S.C.R. 765 : 2020 INSC 127
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4(1), 6 – In 1943, Govt. of India requisitioned 4 acres and 34 gunthas of land bearing Survey No. 120/2 (Part) of Village Malad, Mumbai – In 1949, 2.68 acres land out of the aforesaid land…
Ningappa Thotappa Angadi (Dead) through Lrs. vs The Special Land Acquisition Officer and Another
SC · 13 December 2019
[2019] 15 S.C.R. 37 : 2019 INSC 1365
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4(1), 6(1), 17(1), (4) & 18 – Long delay in filing SLP – Grant of enhanced compensation as granted in the case of other land owners, under the same acquisition, who appealed against the im…
Khatoon & Ors. vs The State of U.P. through Principal Secretary & Ors.
SC · 15 February 2018
[2018] 10 S.C.R. 375 : 2018 INSC 148
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – ss.4,6 and 17 – State acquired hundreds of hectares of land situated in several villages – Aggrieved, some landowners filed writ petitions – Lead judgment passed by High Court in writ petitio…

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