Bombay High Court Quashes Land Acquisition Due to Procedural Lapses: "State Failed to Take Physical Possession; Merely Symbolic Possession and Inclusion of Mortgaged Land in Slab Calculation Were Insufficient for Acquisition Vesting"

Bombay High Court Quashes Land Acquisition Due to Procedural Lapses: “State Failed to Take Physical Possession; Merely Symbolic Possession and Inclusion of Mortgaged Land in Slab Calculation Were Insufficient for Acquisition Vesting”

Court's Decision The Bombay High Court, assessing the legality of land acquisition proceedings, held that merely symbolic possession does not fulfill the requirements of actual possession for land acquisition under…