Judgment on Board

Per Goutam Bhaduri, J.

18/07/2024

Heard.

1. Challenge in these petitions is to the notification dated 02^nd of May, 2019 (Annexure P/1) whereby the State in exercise of power conferred under Section 30(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act, 2013’) has fixed the multiplier factor, wherein it 4 has been stated that in case of compensation given to whose land which is acquired under the Act, 2013 in respect of Rural areas, the factor by which the market value to multiply shall be 2.00. The main ground in these petitions is that this notification has been made prospectively which leaves the gap of the acquisition, inasmuch as, the earlier notification which unilaterally fixed the factor to be 1.00, was set aside by the order of this Court dated 30/10/2018 in a bunch of petitions.

2. The submission is made that though the lands of the petitioners were acquired in between prior to the notification dated 02/05/2019 the subsequent notification which is under challenge has been made applicable prospectively. Consequently, the petitioners are deprived of their valu