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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head> <body> <div style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify"> <table width="800" border="0" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:5px;" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <br /> High Court of Himachal Pradesh <br /><br /> Long road to justice after unauthorised laying of road on private land<br /><br /> MANU/HP/0571/2016 - (05 Jul 2016)<br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Sita Ram v. State of Himachal Pradesh and Ors.</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#FDEDCE"><strong>The High Court of Himachal Pradesh directed the State to compensate a land owner for unauthorised and free use of his land for laying a road. <BR><BR> Aside from a claim of compensation, the petitioner claimed that he had stopped the Gram Panchayat from carrying on laying of the road. He contested that affidavits submitted by persons laying the road were of no consequence as he himself had never given consent.<BR><BR> The authority stated that there already was a road sufficient for vehicles existing at the time. Ironically, the road was built under a World Bank Scheme, pre-condition to which was the requirement that land for the same be provided free of cost.<BR><BR> The court expressed sympathy for the petitioner and order initiation of land acquisition proceedings for the land acquired. Instead of ordering damages, the court made the State responsible for “adopting any other mode for restoring [petitioner’s] land”.</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Relevant : K.B. Ramachandra Raje Urs and Ors. vs. State of Karnataka and Ors. <manuid>MANU/SC/1457/2015</manuid> Jai Ram vs. State of Himachal Pradesh and Others <manuid>MANU/HP/3222/2011</manuid> Jeet Ram vs. State of Himachal Pradesh <manuid>MANU/HP/0649/2014</manuid></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Tags : land acquisition, unauthorised, compensation, road laying</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <!--<td><strong>Source : <a target="_new" href="http://www.manupatrafast.com/">newsroom.manupatra.com</a></strong></td>--> <td align="left" valign="top"><strong>Source : newsroom.manupatra.com</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Regards</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Team Manupatra</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>