Jiwan Singh v. Shri Anurag Jain, the Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna HC; MJC No.1020 of 2024; CWJC 10325 of 2021; Jiwan Singh and Laxman Prasad Singh (petitioners) v. Anurag Jain (Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways), Subrat Kumar Sen (DM Muzaffarpur), Sanjay Kumar Rai (District Land Acquisition Officer), Project Directors PIU NHAI Muzaffarpur/Darbhanga (Manoj Pandey, Lalit Kumar); NHAI counsel Maurya Vijay Chandra gave consent; K.N. Singh Sr. Advocate for NHAI; Dayanand Singh for petitioners; acceptance of land acquisition award Rs.9,87,096/-; recall/modification of FIR-registration direction in order dated 25.07.2025; payment within two weeks; liberty to contest award insufficiency and interest before appropriate Authority/Writ jurisdiction; disposed on 01-08-2025.
What did the court decide?
Award of Rs.9,87,096/- accepted by the petitioner; amount to be handed over to the petitioner within two weeks; direction for registration of F.I.R. in the order dated 25.07.2025 recalled and that order modified; petitioner retains liberty to agitate all grounds including insufficiency of the award and interest before the appropriate Authority/Writ jurisdiction.