SARDARMAL LALWANI Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SIKRI, C. J.- This petition was heard along with Civil Appeals Nos 2139-2140 of 1968. The facts are different but the principles of law to be applied are the same which we have laid down in our judgment in Civil Appeal No. 2139 of 1968 = (reported in AIR 1973 SC 689).

(2.) THE facts in this petition are that the Land Acquisition Act 1894 was amended by the Land Acquisition (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Act 1959 (Madhya Pradesh Act V of l959) hereinafter referred to as the impugned Act.

(3.) IT is alleged inter alia that Bhopal was made Capital of Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 1956. We were referred to the report of the States Reorganisation Commission, 1955. Para 486 states: