Smt Vijayamma v. the Speical Land Acquisition Officer and Competent Authority
Case brief
What is this about?
NC: 2025:KHC:1696 | High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru | WP No. 20729 of 2024 (LA-RES) | Justice M.G.S. Kamal | Oral order dated 16 January 2025 | Land acquisition compensation: petitioner sought mandamus to the Special LAO & Competent Authority (NHAI) and NHAI to release compensation as per Deputy Commissioner order dated 21.02.2022 (Annexure-A) and to consider representations dated 06.10.2023 (Annexures-C/C1); petition disposed of on merits-not-adjudicated because the respondent-Authority's M.F.A.No.2470/2024 (against order dated 05.09.2023 in A.P.No.15010/2022) was pending before the V Additional District and Sessions Judge, Devanahalli; liberty reserved to the petitioner. Statute cited: Articles 226 and 227, Constitution of India. No precedents cited; no monetary quantum; no costs.
What did the court decide?
Liberty reserved to the petitioner to seek such remedy on disposal of M.F.A.No.2470/2024; no immediate direction to release the compensation amount.