https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171746 The Defence of India Act, 1971 was treated as a self-contained code for requisition and acquisition of immovable property, so its compensation scheme under Section 31 was not comparable to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Because the acquired property was already under requisition and in Government possession, the basis for compensation differed materially from acquisition of property taken directly from the owner, where solatium and interest addressed delay and date-specific valuation. The classification between the two statutes was held to rest on intelligible differentia and to have a rational relation to the legislative object, so the omission of solatium and interest was not violative of Article 14. en-us Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:32:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171746 The Defence of India Act, 1971 was treated as a self-contained code for requisition and acquisition of immovable property, so its compensation scheme under Section 31 was not comparable to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Because the acquired property was already under requisition and in Government possession, the basis for compensation differed materially from acquisition of property taken directly from the owner, where solatium and interest addressed delay and date-specific valuation. The classification between the two statutes was held to rest on intelligible differentia and to have a rational relation to the legislative object, so the omission of solatium and interest was not violative of Article 14. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171746