SATLUJ JAL VIDYUT NIGAM Vs. RAJ KUMAR RAJINDER SINGH (DEAD) THROUGH LRS & ORS
LAWS(SC)-2018-9-66
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Decided on September 24,2018

Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Appellant
VERSUS
Raj Kumar Rajinder Singh (Dead) Through Lrs And Ors Respondents

JUDGEMENT

Arun Mishra, J. - (1.) Leave granted.
(2.) The question involved is whether after the abolition of Jagirs by virtue of the Himachal Pradesh Abolition of Big Landed Estates and Land Reforms Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Abolition Act'), the late Jagirdar or his legal representatives could have claimed the compensation on the land acquisition being made particularly when land has vested in the State of Himachal Pradesh, the land was not under the personal cultivation, and particularly when they have received the compensation under the Abolition Act, apart from that had also received the compensation under the provisions of H.P. Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972 (hereinafter referred to as "the Ceiling Act").
(3.) The facts project how a litigant has filed a slew of litigations one after the other and faced with a situation that it was likely to be dismissed, he would withdraw it; again, file it on new grounds, or having lost it, would withdraw it again at appellate stage, and in the meantime, in different proceedings by playing fraud, getting unjust enrichment by receiving compensation at the expense of public exchequer.;


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