India, Feb. 10 -- A significant decision, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that appeals filed against the compensation awarded for land acquisition are not barred under the limitation act, and the High Court can condone the delay upon filing such petitions.

A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma answered the legal question while deciding the interplay between Section 74 read with Section 103 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 and provisions of the Limitation Act, 1963.

The bench held that for land acquisition proceedings initiated under the earlier 1894 law, where no award was made before the 2013 law came into force on January 1, 2014, th...