Haryana State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. v. Jai Narayan and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Land acquisition compensation; Regular First Appeals by HSIIDC (RFA-79-2025(O&M) and connected cases RFA-80 to RFA-88 of 2025) against Reference Court awards; denial of interest on enhanced compensation for 1712–1738 days' delay in filing landowners' RFAs (delay condoned subject to a no-interest condition; interim stay order dated 06.02.2025); market value held squarely covered by Rajit and another v. State of Haryana and others, RFA-1427-2014 (decided 12.02.2016); Punjab & Haryana High Court; Justice Anil Kshetarpal; decided 07.05.2025; batch disposed of along with pending miscellaneous applications.
What did the court decide?
By common order, with the consent of learned counsel, the batch of 10 connected Regular First Appeals stands disposed of: (i) the landowners are denied the benefit of interest on the enhanced compensation for the 1712–1738 days' delay period in filing their RFAs in the previous round (the delay having been condoned subject to that condition), correcting the error admitted by counsel; (ii) the question of the market value assessed by the Reference Court is resolved in terms of the judgment in RFA-1427-2014 ('Rajit and another vs. State of Haryana and others'); and (iii) all pending miscellaneous applications are disposed of.