CENTRAL COAL FIELDS LIMITED Vs. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN this writ application the petitioner Central Coalfields Ltd. has prayed for quashing the order passed by the District Land Acquisition Officer, Hazaribagh in Land Acquisition Case No. 1/2000 -01 whereby he has redetermined, the amount of compensation under Section 28A of the Land Acquisition Act and directed the petitioner to deposit the difference of amount of compensation.

(2.) THE facts of the case lie in a narrow compass.

(3.) SECTION 28A was introduced by Section 19 of the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act. 1984 with effect from 24.9.1984. The new Section provides for reconsideration, in certain circumstances of the award of the Collector which has become final, in the light of the award of the Court in other cases. Section 28A reads as under : - -