Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A, 54 -- Land acquisition - Market value - Determination - Sale deeds - Certified copies of sale deeds can be relied upon without examining the vendor and vendee - However, Court cannot rely them, if there is other acceptable evidence throwing a doubt about correctness of sale price shown therein...........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A -- Proof of document - High Court reduced the market value of acquired land holding that no reliance can be placed on the sale deeds as none of the parties have been examined - View of the High Court contraray to the decision of the Constitution Bench in Cement Corporation of India Ltd. v. Purya 2004(8) SCC 270, wherein it was held..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 64, 65 -- Sale deed - Certified copy - Admissibility - Provision enables the party producing the certified copy of a sale transaction to rely on the contents of the document without examining the vendee or the vendor of that document - However, presumption as to genuineness of the contents of the document..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 77, 74(2), 76 -- Land Acquisition - Compensation - Sale deeds - Certified copies of registered sale deeds are admissible in evidence without proof of the execution of the documents by the vendor/purchaser or any other witness...........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A -- When registered documents are admitted in evidence, it cannot be insisted that the parties to those documents should be examined to prove the transaction...........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A, 23 -- Mere tendering of a copy of registered sale deed in evidence even though execution of document is proved - No proof of truth of contents of such document - Not correct that by virtue of Section 51-A certified copies of sale deeds enough to prove contents thereof - Mere tendering of certified copies of sale deeds in evidence -..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 51A -- Compensation - In absence of examination of vendor or vendee, certified copies of sale deeds filed under Section 51A are not admissible in evidence...........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 23, 51A -- Market value of land acquired - Prevailing prices as on the date of the publication of the notification u/s 4(1), the sale transactions of the same lands or sales of land situated in the neighbourhood furnish evidence of comparable sales - In the instant case comparative sale deeds were filed but not proved as required by law..........
