WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PAKISTAN versus HAJI MUHAMMAD RIYAZ-UL-HASSAN
Sections 23, 4, 11 and 18 Acquire land compensation, defect application request for increase in compensation amount Delay in compensation process Impact of compensation amount Reasonable compensation and market value determination N Scope The Department did not accept the landlord's compensation for landlord default, and an objection to the increase was filed. The referee court accepted the landlord's objection request and increased the amount of compensation. The Department's position was that the acquired land was of agricultural nature with no potential for any kind of commercialism, so there was no justification for the increase in the rates received. The latter happened, while the fixation of the acquired land compensation was given immediately to the one-year-old, which was based on sales through mutations found in the village before the notification was issued. The entire acquisition process had to be completed within a few days without any delay, the compensation rates were set on a one-year average award, which the Collector announced as the mandate and commander of Section 11 of the Land Acquisition Act 1894. Was against The acquisition process should not be delayed unnecessarily. The decision of the referee court was upheld
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