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Assam Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1964 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1964

.....v. Deputy Collector [AIR 1980 SC 1870], it was ruled that an assessment of the compensation payable for acquired must take into account several factors, including the nature of the land, its present use and its capacity for a higher potential, its precise location in relation to adjoining land, that use to which neighbouring land has been put and the impact of such use on the land acquired and so on. In Deep Chand v. The State [AIR 1980 Sc 633], it was observed that the locality or vicinity is not always measurable in terms of feet or furlongs, and reasonable time is not always measurable in terms of days or months. In Mrs. Khoshed Shappor Chertai v. Assistant Collector [AIR 1980 SC 775] it was held that it is the duly of a Court to give the owners as nearly as possible the market value and failure to do so would result in unjust enrichment of the acquire on the one hand and unjust deprivation of the owner on the other which would be unethical and illegal at the same time. Such various decisions were considered in Rabindra Dhar Barua v. Collector of Kamrup [(1981) 1 GLR 200]. When notices under Ss. 4,6 and 9 of the Act have been issued and the land in question has been.....