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Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. Vs. Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. and ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... . there is no dispute before us that the metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978 and the metro railways (operation and maintenance) act, 2002 extend to nagpur and are applicable to the nagpur metro rail project. the expression metro railways has been defined in section 2(i) of the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 in the following words: (i) metro railway means a metro railway or any portion thereof for the public carriage ..... of passengers, animals or goods and includes,-- (a) all land within the boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a metro railway. (b) all .....

Shri Ram Niwas Vs. Lt. Governor and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 2007(97)DRJ567

..... acquisition notification and or proceedings and rehabilitation policy.(ii) to direct the respondents to apply the metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978 for any proposed and present above acquisition for metro station mundka, delhi or any other work or construction for metro in delhi.(iii) to declare provisions of the metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978 as ultra virus of the constitution of india.(iv) to pass ..... corporation. in this respect, it has been contended by mr. shali, learned counsel appearing for the delhi metro rail corporation, that the provisions of the metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978 (hereinafter referred to as `the metro act') have not been resorted to. acquisition is being carried out under the land acquisition act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as `the l.a. act'). mr. shali .....

Pawan Singh and ors., Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 112(2004)DLT420; 2004(75)DRJ739

..... the year 1978, also enacted another legislation, namely, the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 (hereinafter referred to as 'the metro railways act') and, this act also contains the provisions for acquisition of land required for specific purpose viz. for the construction of metro railways or other works connected therewith. in the present case, land ..... to 17. the relevant sections for our purposes are the following:-'6. powers to acquire land, etc.--where it appears to a metro railway administration that for the construction of any metro railway or any other work connected therewith- (a) any land, building, street, road or passage, or(b) any right of ..... required to be taken immediately. still, when the same parliament was legislating qua acquisition of land, building etc. for the purpose of construction of metro railways, it consciously and deliberately did not provide for any such emergency provision and dispensing with right of the interested person from hearing his objections .....

S.P. Indu Vs. the General Manager, Metro Railway and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : [2007(115)FLR905]; JT2007(12)SC302; 2008(2)SLJ6(SC)

..... the premise that he had already been placed in the pay scale of rs.2000-3200/- (rs), held:it is not disputed that the metro railway was constituted under the central act of metro railway (construction and work) acts, 1978 (as amended by act 42 of 1987) and that both the applicant and the respondent were recruited in the ..... open line in different time and job but were posted under metro railways respectively with effect from 17.10.70 and 12.5.78. whereas the applicant ..... and the third respondent, therefore, were not comparable and in that view of the matter although the appellant joined the services of the south eastern railway administration as also the metro railways earlier, he could not be treated to be senior to the third respondent.for the reasons aforementioned, there is no merit in these appeals. they .....

Rajinder Kishan Gupta and anr. Vs. Lt. Governor, Govt. of N.C.T. of De ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 166(2010)DLT278

..... petitioners that de hors the order of hon'ble supreme court, the acquisition for the purpose of dmrc is permissible only under the provisions of the metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978. the question whether acquisition under land acquisition act is permissible or not, when there is a parallel act envisaging acquisition for ..... do so, the petitioners did not say, before the hon'ble supreme court, that the order dated 17.11.2008 envisaged acquisition under the provisions of metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978 and not under the provisions of land acquisition act. the inevitable inference is that the petitioners also understood the order of hon ..... through government of nct of delhi and had already approached its land & building department for this purpose. thus, acquisition by dmrc under the provisions of metro railway (construction of works) act, 1978 was not even in contemplation either of the government or of the dmrc, when they filed this application and both of them .....

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited Vs. Municipal Corporation of Delh ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 150(2008)DLT367; 2008(103)DRJ369

..... other acts.- save as otherwise provided in this act, the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 (33 of 1978).16. thus, the said section states that provisions of 2002 act are in addition and not in ..... may be noticed that both 1989 act and delhi municipal corporation act, 1957 are central acts enacted by the parliament. similarly, the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 and the delhi metro railway (operation and maintenance) act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the 1978 act and 2002 act respectively, for short) have been enacted ..... to the definition clauses of the 2002 act in which the expression 'metro railway' has been defined. it was stated that in view of specific definitions of the expressions 'metro railway', 'metro railway administration', 'non-governmental metro railway', etc.; in the 2002 act, the expression 'railway administration' as defined in 1989 act is not applicable. it is also .....

Summit Inport Services Ltd. and anr. Vs. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 2008(103)DRJ263

..... are binding upon us. in any event, the contention of mr. sethi that the court has not in the said cases examined the effect of section 45 of the metro railway construction of works act, 1978 does not appear to be correct. a reading of the decision in pawan singh's case (supra) would clearly show that the court was ..... thereforee, the exercise of the respondents in invoking the provisions of the land acquisition act for acquisition of land for the purpose of prem nagar mrts station, i.e., the metro railway cannot be faulted with. we are, thus, constrained to dismiss these writ petitions.16. to the same effect is the decision of this court in ram niwas v. ..... the supreme court in the afore noted cases. no doubt, in view of the special scheme provided under the metro railways act, it is expected that when the land, building, etc. is sought to be acquired for the purpose of metro railways, provisions of this act should normally be resorted to. however, that is not to say that machinery under the .....

Shanta Talwar and anr. Vs. Union of India and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... importance of the mrts project for the people of delhi and also the fact that every time the machinery under the la act is put into motion, the provisions of metro railways act have never been invoked.13.the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978, was also made applicable to delhi, which provides for acquisition of land required for specific purpose, namely, for the ..... the la act. counsel appearing for the appellants reinforced their arguments by contending inter alia that no acquisition on behalf of the metro railways could be made under the general law, i.e., la act, as a special legislation called the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 was enacted by the parliament with the specific purpose and object of speedy and adequate acquisition of .....

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority Vs. Reliance Energy L ...

Court : Mumbai

..... said affidavit that with the notification dated 16/10/2009, the said project has come under the purview of metro railway (construction of works) act 1978 and metro railways (operation and maintenance), act 2002 and that metro railway cannot be regarded as tramway in view of the distinct differences between the two systems mentioned therein. it is ..... demand for tolls, fares leviable by mrt administration or concessionaire. 13. on 16/10/2009 by exercising powers under section 1(3) of the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978, the central government after consultation with state government declared that the provisions of the said act shall extend to various metropolitan ..... of concession agreement would apply and not section 33 of the act of 2002. 62. under section 1(3) of metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 and section 1(2) of the metro railways (cooperation and maintenance) act, 2002, the provisions of these two acts may be extended to the metropolitan area and .....

Rajinder Kishan Gupta and anr. Vs. Union of India and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... was challenged before the high court which ended in dismissal. as raised before the high court, it was contended before us that in view of the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978, the respondents are not permitted to invoke urgency provision under the land acquisition act which deprived the appellants from participating in the ..... goel for dda.5) main contentions:i) when the acquisition of the land is for dmrc and when there is a specific act, namely, the metro railways (construction of works) act, 1978 whether the authorities are justified in invoking the urgency provision in the land acquisition act by dispensing enquiry under section 5a of the ..... enquiry under section 5a. the metro railways act (no. 33 of 1978) was enacted by the parliament to provide for the construction of works relating to metro railways in the metropolitan cities. chapter iii of the said act deals with `acquisition'. it is not .....