Ganesh Sampat Tanpure and Ors. v. the State of Maharashtra Thr Revenue and Forest Dept. and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Revenue record reservation entries; land shown reserved but never acquired; lapsed acquisition notification; Gunjawadi Irrigation Project; Maharashtra Project Affected Persons Rehabilitation Act 1999; deletion of reservation entries; 10-week compliance timeline; Competent Authority letter; State eminent-domain rights kept open; Bombay High Court batch writ petitions 2024-2025; rule made absolute; no costs.
What did the court decide?
Rule made absolute in each petition: respondents to take appropriate action within 10 weeks to delete the entries of reservation of the petitioners' lands for the concerned project from the revenue records, with compliance to be forwarded to the petitioners by a letter from the Competent Authority; all rights and contentions of the State Government kept open for any future acquisition per law; no costs.