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PETITIONER: BABU BARKYA THAKUR
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF BOMBAY AND OTHERS.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 08/08/1960
BENCH: SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.(CJ) BENCH: SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.(CJ) IMAM, SYED JAFFER SARKAR, A.K. WANCHOO, K.N. SHAH, J.C.
CITATION: 1960 AIR 1203 CITATOR INFO : R 1961 SC 343 (5,7) R 1962 SC 764 (5,21) R 1963 SC 151 (21,34,53) RF 1965 SC 646 (9) RF 1965 SC 995 (6) RF 1966 SC1593 (15) R 1966 SC1788 (18,20) D 1967 SC1074 (8) O 1970 SC 564 (4) RF 1971 SC 306 (5,10) D 1973 SC1150 (9) RF 1973 SC1461 (1017) R 1978 SC 597 (128,129) RF 1980 SC1678 (3) R 1985 SC 736 (5,14) D 1985 SC1622 (13,15) RF 1992 SC1827 (2)
ACT: Land Acquisition--Preliminary notification--Land needed for company--Non-mention of public purpose--Legality Proceedings, if violate fundamental rights--Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894), ss. 4, 5A, 6, 40--Constitution of India, Arts. 19(1)(f), 31.
HEADNOTE: By a notification under s. 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the State of Bombay (now Maharashtra) sought to acquire certain lands, including those of the petitioner, which were likely to be needed by a company, manufacturing steel bars and rods, for its factory and buildings and appointed a Special Land Acquisition ...