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- Title
Judicial Interpretation of the Land Acquisition Act in India: LAA, 1894 to RFCTLARR Act, 2013.
- Authors
Nair, Reshmy
- Abstract
In the 120 years of its existence, the pre-constitutional colonial law, Land Acquisition Act, 1894, had been subjected to many interpretations by different courts of the country. These judicial interventions helped expose the inherent unfairness of the legislation, provided the much needed succor to the aggrieved land owners, cemented the way for many amendments and eventually laid the foundation for transition to the new law. On the implementation side, the interpretations provided ample clarity to operationally define many provisions. The paper makes an attempt to capture the essence of some of the important judgments that not only transformed the state-centric legislation to a more people-centric law but also provided operational clarity to some of the provisions that continue to be significant in the changed legal framework. As the country is getting into the implementation mode of the new law, this paper is contextually more relevant. Few judicial interventions in the case of new law have also been carefully chosen to provide greater clarity to the clauses with ambiguity or implementation issues.
- Subjects
INDIA; REAL property acquisition; REAL property acquisition laws; LAND use laws; COLONIAL law
- Publication
ASCI Journal of Management, 2016, Vol 45, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0257-8069
- Publication type
Article