New Delhi: In a significant victory for landowners and farmers, the Supreme Court has clarified the guiding principle for determining compensation in compulsory land acquisition cases, ruling that authorities must generally consider the highest comparable bona fide sale price (or “exemplar”) rather than resorting to an average. The ruling, delivered by a bench of Chief...

New Delhi: In a significant judgment addressing land acquisition compensation, the Supreme Court of India has firmly reiterated that comparable sale deeds used to determine market value must pre-date the official Section 4 Notification of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The two-Judge Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan delivered the ruling while settling...