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KRISHNA S.DIXIT
Moola Investments (india) Pvt Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State of Karnataka – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Krishna S Dixit, J. - There are two sets of challenge in these Petitions: in W.P.Nos. 40343/2004 & 40382/2004, the land owners have laid a challenge to the acquisition proceedings taken up under the provisions of the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Act, 1966, which commenced with the issuance of Preliminary Notification dated 10.12.2001 issued u/s 28(1) followed by the enquiry under Section 28(3) dated 18.11.2003 and culminating in the issuance of the Final Notification dated 7.5.2004 u/s 28(4) and eventually resulting into the issuance of Possession Delivery Notice dated 3.9.2004 u/s 28(6) of the 1966 Act.
2. Learned counsel appearing for the Petitioner-land owners argued that these lands are not required for the purpose for which they are notified for acquisition; this fact becomes pronounced by virtue of denotification of these lands from the acquisition process; initially, the acquisition was for the benefit of INFOSYS, which has given up its claim; subsequently there being no named beneficiary, Final Notification could not have been issued; the acquisition pr
Denotification under the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Act must be legally permissible and not actuated by malafide motives.
An argument to contrary blurs boundary lines of schemes of acquisition envisaged under these statutes and thus, runs counter to scope of section 28 of 1966 Act.
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