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SANJIV KHANNA, SANJAY KUMAR
Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board, through its Chairman – Appellant
Versus
Bhagwan Devi (Dead), through her LR. – Respondent
JUDGMENT
SANJAY KUMAR, J
1. Turning the law of land acquisition on its head, the astonishing events that this appeal is founded on need to be narrated in some detail.
2. An extent of 33 acres of land abutting the Narela-Bawana Road was acquired by the Government to enable the Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board (hereinafter, ‘the Board’) to shift and establish its grain market in Narela. Notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity, ‘the Act of 1894’), was issued on 30.10.1963. Declaration under Section 6 of the Act of 1894 was issued on 10.01.1969 and the Award, determining the compensation, was made on 19.09.1986. The acquired land included an extent of 6 bighas and 10 biswas situated in Khasra Nos. 296, 298 and 303 of Village Mamoorpur. Bhagwan Devi claimed ownership over this smaller extent under registered sale deeds of the years 1959 and 1971. Possession of the acquired land was taken and handed over on 22.09.1986 to the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee, Narela, under the control of the Board. This ostensibly included the extent of 6 bighas and 10 biswas claimed by Bhagwan Devi. She, then, filed W.P. No. 149 of 1987 before the Delhi High
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