{"id":226930,"date":"2010-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/competent-vs-thakor-on-13-december-2010"},"modified":"2017-08-27T20:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T14:31:31","slug":"competent-vs-thakor-on-13-december-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/competent-vs-thakor-on-13-december-2010","title":{"rendered":"Competent vs Thakor on 13 December, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Competent vs Thakor on 13 December, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Ks Jhaveri,&amp;Nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre>   Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n\n  \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nFA\/4707\/2006\t 6\/ 6\tJUDGMENT \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nFIRST\nAPPEAL No. 4707 of 2006\n \n\nTo\n\n\n \n\nFIRST\nAPPEAL No. 4711 of 2006\n \n\n \nFor\nApproval and Signature:  \n \nHONOURABLE\nMR.JUSTICE KS JHAVERI\n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n1\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\tReporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n2\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nTo be\n\t\t\treferred to the Reporter or not ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n3\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\ttheir Lordships wish to see the fair copy of the judgment ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n4\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\tthis case involves a substantial question of law as to the\n\t\t\tinterpretation of the constitution of India, 1950 or any order\n\t\t\tmade thereunder ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n5\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\tit is to be circulated to the civil judge ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n=========================================================\n\n \n\nCOMPETENT\nAUTHORITY - Appellant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nTHAKOR\nVIRSANJI SURAJI &amp; 2 - Defendant(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nRR MARSHALL for\nAppellant(s) : 1, \nNOTICE SERVED BY DS for Defendant(s) : 1 - 3. \nMR\nAV PRAJAPATI for Defendant(s) : 1, \nMR NEERAJ SONI,\nLD.ASST.GOVERNMENT PLEADER for Defendant(s) : 2 -\n3. \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE KS JHAVERI\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 13\/12\/2010\n \n\nCOMMON\nORAL JUDGMENT<\/pre>\n<p>This<br \/>\n\tgroup of appeals involve common questions on law and facts and<br \/>\n\ttherefore, they are disposed of by this common judgment.\n<\/p>\n<p>These<br \/>\n\tappeals have been filed against the judgment and award dated 09th<br \/>\n\tApril 2004 passed by the 4th Joint Civil Judge (S.D.),<br \/>\n\tMehsana in Land Acquisition Reference Case No.3140 of 2003 and<br \/>\n\tallied matters, whereby, the references were partly allowed and the<br \/>\n\tappellant-ONGC was held liable to pay Rs.3-75 ps. per sq.mtr. as<br \/>\n\tannual rent to the original claimants along with interest as<br \/>\n\tenumerated in the award till the entire amount is realised.\n<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\n\tfacts in brief of the case are that the Land Acquisition Officer<br \/>\n\tmade a proposal for temporary acquisition of the lands belonging to<br \/>\n\tthe respondents, original claimants. After following due procedure,<br \/>\n\tthe lands came to be acquired. Thereafter, awards came to be passed<br \/>\n\tby the competent authority fixing the amount of compensation.\n<\/p>\n<p>However,<br \/>\n\tbeing dissatisfied with the awards, the original claimed raised<br \/>\n\tdisputes by way of reference before the Court below. The reference<br \/>\n\tCourt, after appreciating the documents on record, partly allowed<br \/>\n\tthe same by way of the impugned orders. Hence, these appeals.\n<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\n\tmain contention raised by the appellant-Corporation is that the<br \/>\n\treference Court has not appreciated the law governing the subject,<br \/>\n\tmore particularly, Section 35 of the Land Acquisition Act, in its<br \/>\n\tproper perspective. It has been submitted that the reference<br \/>\n\tCourt has also lost sight of several other important factors while<br \/>\n\tawarding additional amount of rent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tHeard<br \/>\n\tlearned counsel for the respective parties and perused the documents<br \/>\n\ton record. The issue involved in these appeals is squarely covered<br \/>\n\tby the ratio laid down by the Division Bench of this Court in the<br \/>\n\tcase of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.  v. Sankarji<br \/>\n\tHemaji and another, reported in (2008) 17 GHJ 523. It would<br \/>\n\tbe beneficial to reproduce the relevant portion of the said decision<br \/>\n\tas under :\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;5.2\tOn<br \/>\nthe facts of the case, it is evident that the Reference Court has<br \/>\nalso determined the further rent which issue was not before it. I am,<br \/>\ntherefore, of the opinion that the contention raised by the learned<br \/>\nAdvocate for the appellant that the observation or direction issued<br \/>\nby the Reference Court in the operative part of the orders require to<br \/>\nbe quashed and set aside, is required to be accepted. If the said<br \/>\ndirection is allowed to remain then it would amount to granting the<br \/>\nrent which is over the rent fixed by the appellant-O.N.G.C. from time<br \/>\nto time. Moreover, the same has been fixed without considering as to<br \/>\nwhat would be the future rent fixed by the appellant- O.N.G.C, which<br \/>\nis beyond the scope of reference.  Hence if the said observation is<br \/>\nallowed to remain then, in that event such compensation would be much<br \/>\nmore than the amount which has been found to be adequate by the<br \/>\nCourt.\n<\/p>\n<p>5.3\t It<br \/>\nmay be noted that the Reference Court was dealing with a particular<br \/>\nacquisition and it was not open for the said Court to pass an order<br \/>\nin respect of future rent.  Such an observation on the part of the<br \/>\nReference Court is clearly bad in law in view of the provisions of<br \/>\nSection 35(3) of the Act. In that  view of the matter, the<br \/>\nobservations or direction issued by the Reference Court with regard<br \/>\nto additional amount of compensation, requires to be quashed and set<br \/>\naside.\n<\/p>\n<p>6.0\tIn<br \/>\nthe result, these appeals are allowed. The observation &#8220;over<br \/>\nthe rent fixed by O.N.G.C. from time to time with the running<br \/>\ninterest at the rate of 9% p.a. from the date of due date of running<br \/>\ntill the day of payment is made&#8221;, made by the Reference<br \/>\nCourt in the operative part of the impugned judgments and awards, is<br \/>\nquashed and set aside.  These appeals are allowed to the aforesaid<br \/>\nextent. Rule is made absolute to the aforesaid extent with no order<br \/>\nas to costs.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\n\twould also be beneficial to reproduce the operative part of the said<br \/>\n\tjudgment, which reads as under :\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;41.\tSimilarly,<br \/>\n\tevent he conduct and the action of the then Special Land Acquisition<br \/>\n\tOfficer, who has referred the references applications in more than<br \/>\n\t100 cases to the reference court, though the applications for<br \/>\n\treference were filed after a period of more than 20 years, is also<br \/>\n\trequired to be considered seriously at the hands of Government.<br \/>\n\tUnder the circumstances, Chief Secretary, Revenue Department is<br \/>\n\tdirected to hold necessary inquiry against the concerned Special<br \/>\n\tLand Acquisition Officer with regard to his conduct and actions.<br \/>\n\tRegistry is directed to communicate this order to the Chief<br \/>\n\tSecretary, Revenue Department, State of Gujarat for compliance.\n<\/p>\n<p>42.\tFor<br \/>\nthe reasons stated hereinabove,all the appeals succeed and are<br \/>\nallowed with costs which is quantified at Rs.5000\/- (Rupees Five<br \/>\nThousand only) per each appeal. The impugned common judgement and<br \/>\naward dated 15.10.2005 passed by the learned Principal Senior Civil<br \/>\nJudge, Mehsana (Mr. J.R. Shah) inland Reference Case Nos.3780 to 3784<br \/>\nof 2003 is hereby quashed and set aside and it is held that:\n<\/p>\n<p>[i]\tThe<br \/>\nreference applications submitted by the original claimants were not<br \/>\nmaintainable.\n<\/p>\n<p>[ii]\tThe<br \/>\nreference applications were required to be dismissed on the ground of<br \/>\nlimitation considering Article 137 of the Limitation Act.  In the<br \/>\nalternate, the same were required to be dismissed on the ground of<br \/>\ndelay and laches.\n<\/p>\n<p>[iii]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction to decide any other question<br \/>\nexcept the difference as to sufficiency of compensation in a<br \/>\nreference under sec.35(3) of the Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>[iv]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction to decide any other question<br \/>\nexcept the difference as to sufficiency of compensation in a<br \/>\nreference under section 35(3) of the Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>[v]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction to declare acquisition<br \/>\nproceedings and the award declared by the Special Land Acquisition<br \/>\nOfficer under sec.35(3) of the Act as illegal and\/or non-est in a<br \/>\nreference under section 35(3) of the Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>[vi]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction to declare possession of the<br \/>\nacquiring body as illegal and\/or unauthorized and consequently the<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction to declare the ONGC-acquiring<br \/>\nbody as trespasser that too without framing any issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>[vii]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction toward compensation by way of<br \/>\nmesne profit declaring compensation of the acquiring body as illegal<br \/>\nand unauthorized.\n<\/p>\n<p>[viii]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has also no jurisdiction to award statutory benefits<br \/>\nand or interest, as awarded by the reference court, as if the<br \/>\nacquisition proceedings is a permanent acquisition.\n<\/p>\n<p>[ix]\tThe<br \/>\nreference court has no jurisdiction to determine the dispute with<br \/>\nregard to sufficiency of the compensation beyond the period of three<br \/>\nyears from the date of taking the possession.\n<\/p>\n<p>[x]\tThe<br \/>\nReference Court has no jurisdiction to restore the possession of the<br \/>\nland to the original owners while deciding the reference under<br \/>\nsec.35(3) of the Act.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>From<br \/>\n\tthe above order passed by this Court, it is clear that while dealing<br \/>\n\twith an application u\/s. 35(3) of the said Act, the reference Court<br \/>\n\tis not empowered to pass an order in respect of future rent. The<br \/>\n\tratio laid down in the aforesaid case is squarely applicable to the<br \/>\n\tfacts of the case. The learned advocate for the respondents is not<br \/>\n\table to point out anything to take a different view in the matters.<br \/>\n\tHence, the impugned orders passed by the reference Court, being bad<br \/>\n\tin law, deserve to be quashed and set aside.\n<\/p>\n<p>For<br \/>\n\tthe foregoing reasons, present appeals are hereby allowed. The<br \/>\n\timpugned common judgment and award is hereby quashed and set aside.<br \/>\n\tNo order as to costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>(K.S.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jhaveri, J)<\/p>\n<p>Aakar<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Competent vs Thakor on 13 December, 2010 Author: Ks Jhaveri,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print FA\/4707\/2006 6\/ 6 JUDGMENT IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD FIRST APPEAL No. 4707 of 2006 To FIRST APPEAL No. 4711 of 2006 For Approval and Signature: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE KS JHAVERI ========================================================= 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Competent vs Thakor on 13 December, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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