ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 18-11-2025 Heard Mr. Uday Bhanu Roy, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Kumar Goutam for ‘the NHAI’ as also Mr.

Jitendra Kumar representing the State.

2. The present petition has been preferred for the following relief(s):

“issuance of an appropriate writ, order or to direction to the respondents make payment of entire compensation amount alongwith penal interest of the land alongwith Pucca building and three thatched houses acquired by central government/ National Highway authority of India for the purpose of widening of National Highway No.57 pursuant to the order dated 18.10.2012. passed by Additional Collector cum Arbitrator, Purnea in Arbitration case no. 16/2010 and/or for any other relief or reliefs to which the petitioner is found fit and entitled.”

3. The matter relates to construction/widening of NH-

57. The matter went up to the Arbitrator in Arbitration Case No. 16 of 2010 ( Bibi Ishrat Jahan vs. Land Acquisition Officer, Araria & Ors.). It came to be disposed of on 18.10.2012 by the Additional Collector-cum-Arbitrator, Purnea and taking into account that the part of the building that was demolished has led to the complete building getting damaged