JAMMU, May 14 -- Reaffirming the legal distinction between the right to compensation for physical acquisition of land and the non-compensable nature of aerial usage for transmission infrastructure the Justice Sindhu Sharma High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has held that individual landowners cannot assert any legal, fundamental, or constitutional rights over aerial space traversed by high-tension transmission lines.
Justice Sindhu Sharma, while dismissing a writ petition filed by a Uri-based resident, reiterated that the aerial right of way in respect of transmission lines continues to vest with the State and does not entitle landowners to compensation merely because such lines pass over their properties.
The court made these obser...