Hari Ram and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench (neutral citation [2025:RJ-JP:14055]); S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 12556/2009 [CW-12556/2009], decided 27/03/2025 by Mahendar Kumar Goyal, J. Petitioners Hari Ram, Prahlad, Vijay Singh, Birbal and Gainda (residents of Village Girdharpura, Tehsil Sikray, Distt. Dausa) challenged the Land Acquisition Officer's award dated 19.03.2008 made under the National Highway Act, 1956 against Union of India, State of Rajasthan, LAO-cum-SDO Sikray, NHAI Project Officer, District Collector Dausa, Tehsildar Sikray and Riyyagrahi M/s Jaipur Mahwa Tollway Pvt. Ltd. Petition dismissed at threshold on maintainability: alternative remedy against the impugned award not exhausted. Keywords: alternative remedy; maintainability of writ petition; National Highway Act, 1956; land acquisition award; compensation award challenge.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition is not maintainable without exhausting the alternative remedy available to the petitioners against the impugned award; learned counsel for the petitioners could not satisfy the Court as to how the writ petition was maintainable without exhausting the alternative remedy, and the petition is accordingly dismissed on that ground.