Srinagar, May 9 -- A bench of Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal underscored that Article 300-A of the Indian Constitution safeguards an individual's property rights, prohibiting arbitrary confiscation by the Government or any authority.

".the respondents (authorities) are directed to pay the petitioner a punitive compensation to the tune of Rs.10,00,000/- (ten lacs) as an interim measures which will be in addition to the compensation by way of damages to the tune of Rs.76,40,200/- (seventy six lacs, forty thousand, two hundred) which has been assessed and is being granted by this Court for demolishing the property of the petitioner without any authority of law," the court said while disposing of a petition filed by one Abdul Majid of Bathindi i...