Upholding a single bench order, the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the LPA (Letter Patents Appeal) in a matter regarding compensation over NHAI land acquisition.
The court held, “Where larger interest of public is involved, sanctity of date of completion of the project for construction and relevance or importance cannot be ignored on account of few numbered litigants, who are contesting only for the sake of determination of appropriate compensation.”
The appeal against the single bench order of the HC was filed by Manjit Singh and others asking that the NHAI be directed to pass rehabilitation and resettlement award, and that the possession be protected apart from providing infrastructural and other basic amenities in the proposed area of resettlement.
