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Bapu Laxman Chavan Since Decd. Thr. His Lrs Baban Bapu Chavan v. Deputy Collector Raigad and Ors.

Bombay HC14 Jan 2026WP/17234/2025

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What is this about?

Koyna project land acquisition; oustee rehabilitation; claim for alternate land by legal heirs of deceased landowner; inaction/delay in deciding application dated 27-07-2018 before Additional Collector, Raigad; mandamus-type direction to decide application within three months; no merits finding on entitlement; writ petition disposed; Bench: Sarang V. Kotwal & Sandesh D. Patil, JJ.

What did the court decide?

Direction to the Additional Collector, Raigad to decide the Petitioners' application dated 27th July, 2018 within three months, strictly in accordance with law; no observation made on entitlement to alternate land, which is left to the authorities. ¶5

Bapu Laxman Chavan Since Decd. Thr. His Lrs Baban Bapu Chavan vs Deputy Collector Raigad and Ors. — Bombay HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

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Issue for consideration

Whether the writ petition should be resolved by directing the Additional Collector, Raigad to decide the Petitioners' pending application dated 27th July, 2018 (made in the context of lands acquired for the Koyna project without grant of alternate land), without the court making any finding on the Petitioners' entitlement to alternate land.

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Court's answer

The court observed that the Petitioners' application had been pending for quite some time and that the least expected was that the Additional Collector, Raigad should have passed some order on the application.

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Ratio / Principle

The Additional Collector, Raigad was directed to decide the Petitioners' application dated 27th July, 2018 within a period of three months, strictly in accordance with law.

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Key takeaways

The court expressly clarified that it had made no observations regarding the entitlement of the Petitioners to have an alternate land, leaving that issue strictly to the decision of the authorities at this stage.ratio¶4(ii)
The Writ Petition was disposed of in these terms.ratio¶5

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Bombay High Court (Sarang V. Kotwal & Sandesh D. Patil, JJ.; 14-01-2026) disposed of a writ petition by the legal heirs of Bapu Laxman Chavan, whose lands in Survey Nos. 3/2 and 4/2, village Kargaon, Taluka Jalwali, District Satara, were acquired for the Koyna project without grant of alternate land. Their application dated 27-07-2018 before the Additional Collector, Raigad had remained undecided despite correspondence with the Collector, Satara. The Court directed the Additional Collector, Raigad to decide the application within three months strictly in accordance with law, expressly refraining from making any observation on the Petitioners' entitlement to alternate land and leaving that issue to the authorities.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

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VASANT ANANDRAO IDHOL

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Digitally signed by VASANT ANANDRAO IDHOL Date: 2026.01.17 17:44:21 +0530

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WRIT PETITION NO.17234 OF 2025

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Bapu L. Chavan, since deceased through his L.R. - Baban B. Chavan ...Petitioners V/s. Deputy Collector, Rehabilitation, Raigad & Ors. ...Respondents

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Mr.Nitin P. Deshpande with Ms.Rachana Harpale and Mr.Santosh Kurade for the Petitioners.

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Mr.A.I. Patel, Addl.GP with Mr.R.S. Pawar, AGP for the State – Respondent.

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CORAM : SARANG V. KOTWAL & SANDESH D. PATIL, JJ. DATE : 14TH JANUARY, 2026.

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P.C. :-

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It is the Petitioners’ case that they are the legal heir of

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Bapu Laxman Chavan, who was the owner of the land situated in Survey No.3/2 and 4/2, situated at village Kargaon, Taluka Jalwali, District Satara. Learned counsel for the Petitioners

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submitted that the said lands were acquired for Koyna project. No alternate land was given to Bapu Laxman Chavan or his legal

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heirs. The Petitioners made an application on 27^th July, 2018 before the Additional Collector, Raigad.

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Learned counsel for the Petitioners submitted that there

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was correspondence between the Additional Collector Raigad and the Collector Satara. Till date, the Petitioners’ application is not yet decided. It is quite obvious that the Petitioners’ application is pending for quite some time. Least that was expected was that the Additional Collector, Raigad should have passed some order on the application.

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Therefore, we are inclined to direct the Additional

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Collector, Raigad to decide the said application within a reasonable time.

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Hence the following order :-

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i). The Additional Collector, Raigad shall decide the Petitioners’ application dated 27^th July, 2018 within a period of

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three months from today strictly in accordance with law.

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ii). We make it clear that we have not made any

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observations regarding the entitlement of the Petitioners to have an alternate land. The issue is strictly left to the decision of the Authorities at this stage.

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The Writ Petition is disposed off.

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(SANDESH D. PATIL, J.) (SARANG V. KOTWAL, J.)

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