Shushilabai Honsing Patil (Died) Mahendra and Ors. v. the Collector through the Special Land Acquisition Officer, M.I.W., Jalgaon

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Bombay High Court, Aurangabad Bench; Coram: Neeraj P. Dhote, J.; order dated 07.05.2025. Matters: Civil Application Nos. 4113, 4114, 4115, 4116 of 2025 (claimants' withdrawal applications) and Civil Application Nos. 717, 718, 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, 725 of 2021 (Acquiring Body's condonation-of-delay and stay applications), all in First Appeals FAST/15883/2020, FAST/15887/2020, FAST/15951/2020 and FAST/15954/2020. Parties: Latabai Shivaji Patil and anr. (Original Claimants); The Collector through the Special Land Acquisition Officer, M.I.W.R., Jalgaon; Tapi Irrigation Development Co. through the Ex. Engineer, M.I.W., Jalgaon. Advocates: Ms. S. A. Kale h/f Mr. Kale Ajeet B.; Mr. Rajdeep D. Raut (AGP); Mr. Bhaktraj L. Patil h/f Mr. Ajay D. Pawar. Subject matter: land acquisition compensation; enhancement by Reference Court to five times the SLAO award under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894; withdrawal of 75% of court deposit with accrued interest on usual undertaking; balance 25% in Nationalized Bank fixed deposit renewed till disposal of appeals; condonation of 684 days' delay in filing appeals (administrative reasons; Prayer Clause 'B'); objection that interest ran from Section 4 Notification instead of date of SLAO Award; stay of Judgment and Award dated 31/01/2018 of Joint Civil Judge (Senior Division), Jalgaon in LAR Nos. 973/2010, 975/2010, 976/2010 and 975/2010 upon deposit of entire award amount. All civil applications disposed of.