Sumanbai Nivrutti Avhad and Ors. v. the Union of India Throu. the Deputy Secretary the Ministry of Shipping and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
solatium; interest; statutory benefits; Land Acquisition Act 1894 Sections 23 28; NHAI National Highway Authority of India; Union of India v. Tarsem Singh (2019) 9 SCC 304; Bombay High Court batch writ petitions WP 8509 of 2025; Competent Authority; Special Land Acquisition Officer; Project Director NHAI; disbursal versus deposit; Jagannath Vishnu Pawar WP(C) 16370 of 2023 order 07.10.2025 Kulkarni Sathe; Manidhari Realtors WP 7224 of 2022; review dismissed February 2025; no interim stay; SLP(C) 36306 of 2025 listed 19.01.2026; quantum contentions kept open; State of Maharashtra Collector Nashik.
What did the court decide?
Writ petitions allowed with consequential directions: (i) petitioners to furnish copies of their respective awards to the Competent Authority/Special Land Acquisition Officer within two weeks of uploading of the order, for computing solatium and interest per the Supreme Court's Tarsem Singh holding; (ii) Competent Authority to compute amounts payable on receipt of award copies and intimate the Project Director, NHAI, within six weeks; (iii) Project Director, NHAI to accept the computation and deposit with the Competent Authority the amounts payable to each petitioner towards solatium and interest, within six weeks of receipt of the computation; (iv) Competent Authority thereafter to disburse the received amounts to the petitioners; (v) all contentions of the parties expressly kept open with regard to calculation of the quantum of solatium and interest payable under Sections 23 and 28 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894; (vi) petitions and pending applications, if any, stand disposed of in these terms.