M.C.D. vs LICHHO DEVI . — C.A. No. 5938/1997

The Supreme Court allowed MCD's appeal and set aside the High Court's order quashing the land acquisition notification for Khasra Nos. 127 and 173. The High Court had wrongly interpreted a 1985 stay order as not stopping acquisition proceedings, when in fact such stay orders exclude the entire stay period from the statutory two-year deadline for making an award under Section 11A. The case was remanded to the High Court for fresh disposal on the actual merits of the writ petition. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.