Varinder Sandhu vs State of Haryana - 2023 Supreme(P&H) 2269

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 2269

SURESHWAR THAKUR, KULDEEP TIWARI
Varinder Sandhu – Appellant
Versus
State of Haryana – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Mr. Anubhav Bansal, and Mr. Arun Bansal, Advocates; For the Petitioner
Mr. Ankur Mittal, Addl. A.G., Haryana with Mr. Saurabh Mago, DAG, Haryana.

JUDGMENT

Mr. Sureshwar Thakur, J.

Through the instant writ petition, the petitioner claims relief for quashing of the acquisition proceedings, as became drawn under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Act of 1894'). The secondary relief, as asked for in the instant writ petition, relates to a mandamus being made upon the respondent(s) concerned to, thus in terms of Section 101 -A of The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Act of 2013'), as became incorporated therein through Haryana Act No.21 of 2018, and, which was made applicable retrospectively from the year 2014, thus release the acquired lands from acquisition, but obviously on the ground, that the acquired lands are both unessential and enviable for the relevant public purpose.

2. However, for the reasons to be assigned hereinafter, the above espoused reliefs are un-meritworthy, and, are as such rejected.

3. The reason for forming the above conclusion, stems from the factum, that the writ petitioner had earlier motioned this Court, through his instituting CWP-11861-2018. In the writ petition (supr

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