{
  "id": 12283874,
  "title": "Landowners Can Seek Higher Compensation If Award Was Not Communicated, Indore High Court Rules",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/landowners-can-seek-higher-compensation-if-award-was-not-communicated",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-06T01:34:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/landowners-can-seek-higher-compensation-if-award-was-not-communicated-indore-high-court-rules"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Indore High Court has ruled that landowners have the right to seek increased compensation even if they were not informed of a land acquisition award and were not given prior notice, as long as they become aware of it later. Justice Vinay Saraf explained that the limitation period for filing a civil revision petition begins from the moment the landowner learns of the award, not from the date it was signed. The court emphasized that the reference court cannot dismiss the case based on the limitation period alone, but must consider the merits of the case. The ruling applied to the Indore-Dahod railway line acquisition, where the acquisition notification was issued in 2018 and the award was passed in 2020. A landowner filed a petition in June 2025, claiming he was not notified of the award. The reference court initially dismissed the case as time-barred, but the High Court set aside the dismissal and remanded the matter for further consideration.",
  "summary": "Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that landowners cannot be denied the right to seek enhanced compensation merely because a land acquisition award was passed years earlier, if they were neither present when the award was made nor served notice of it. Justice Vinay Saraf, deciding a batch of civil revision petitions linked to land acquired for the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}