Govt. of NCT of Delhi vs Moorti Devi - 2023 Supreme(Del) 4034

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2023 Supreme(Del) 4034

VIBHU BAKHRU, AMIT MAHAJAN
Govt. of NCT of Delhi – Appellant
Versus
Moorti Devi – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr Siddharth Panda and Mr P. Venkatesan, Advocates, for the Appellant.
None, for the Respondent.

JUDGMENT

Vibhu Bakhru, J. The appellant has filed the present intra court appeal impugning the judgment dated 19.04.2018 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(C) 6119/2013 (hereafter `impugned judgment'). By the impugned judgment, the learned Single Judge had rejected the decision of the Recommendation Committee dated 28.03.2013, whereby the respondent's request for an alternate plot was rejected. The appellant was further directed to reconsider the respondent's application dated 03.06.1988 for grant of an alternate plot on its own merit within a period of twelve weeks.

2. The respondent had filed the writ petition being aggrieved by rejection of her request for allotment of an alternate plot under the scheme to allot alternative plots to the land owners, whose lands were acquired. The said petition was allowed by the impugned judgement.

3. The agricultural land belonging to the respondent was acquired by the appellant. The Notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 in respect of the agricultural lands owned by the respondent was issued on 27.01.1984. The award for compensation payable for the acquisition of the land was declared on 01.09.1986. The physica

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