Shimla, May 24 -- In major relief to thousands of land losers affected by highway expansion and infrastructure projects, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has quashed the state government's decade-old controversial notification which had fixed the land compensation multiplier at 1.0 for rural areas.
The division bench comprising Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Justice Sushil Kukreja held the notification ultra vires to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
"This Court finds merit in the petitions, and the same are allowed. Accordingly, Notification dated 01.04.2015 (Annexure P-1) is quashed and set aside," the judgment stated.
The bench directed the government to n...