CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PURNENDU SINGH ORAL ORDER

6 29-01-2026 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and learned counsel for the State.

2. Petitioner has inter alia prayed for following reliefs in the paragraphs No.1 of the writ petition:-

“(I) For issuance of a writ, in the nature of a writ of mandamus directing and commanding the respondents to pay the appropriate compensation money in lieu of acquiring the petitioner’s land at the present compensation rate in terms of Land Acquisition Act .

(ii) For issuance of a writ in the nature of a writ of mandamus directing to pay due rental amount of the compensation arising out of land being made in use by the State without paying the compensation i.e. without proper acquisition for the period taking in respondent’s use and possession till the land acquisition process is complete, which is as yet to complete in want of the payment of compensation.

(iii) For passing any appropriate order in the facts and circumstances stated hereinabve.”

3. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that petitioner has been deprived from his rightful claim of due compensation for the land, which has been acquir