IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (arising out of SLP (Civil) No. 6449 of 2020)
FRANCIS ..... APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
STATE OF KERALA & ORS. ..... RESPONDENT(S)
with
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 8291 OF 2013
and
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 2024 (arising out of SLP(Civil) No. 6450 of 2020)
O R D E R
Leave granted in the special leave petitions.
The impugned judgments primarily rely upon the judgment dated
12.07.2010 passed by the High Court in L.A. App. No. 272/2010(C)
and a connected matter. A copy of the said judgment was not placed
on record by the appellant or the respondents.
In view of the aforesaid position, we had passed over the
matter to enable the learned counsel for the parties to procure and
place on record the judgment dated 12.07.2010.
A copy of the judgment dated 12.07.2010 in L.A. App. No.
272/2010(C) and a connected matter has been produced before us and
we have perused the same. In the said case, it appears that there
was some purchase agreement and pursuant to which compensation was
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paid to some of the landowners, who had settled the matter.
However, such settlement amount was not taken as the basis for
awarding compensation to others. We have also perused paragraphs 7
and 8 of the judgment dated 12.07.2010, but are unable to decipher
the basis for arriving at the figures mentioned in the said
judgment.
The impugned judgments do not examine as to...