https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194107 Compliance with Rule 4 of the Land Acquisition (Companies) Rules, 1963 is not a mandatory pre-condition to issue a section 4 notification under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The statutory scheme treats section 4 as the preliminary stage requiring only the government's view that land is needed or likely to be needed, while Rule 4 and the related reports and agreement under section 41 concern the later section 6 declaration stage. The compensation rule in section 23, which values land by reference to the date of the section 4 notification, also supports this reading. Earlier contrary observations were not treated as binding. en-us Wed, 20 Feb 1985 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:17:42 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194107 Compliance with Rule 4 of the Land Acquisition (Companies) Rules, 1963 is not a mandatory pre-condition to issue a section 4 notification under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The statutory scheme treats section 4 as the preliminary stage requiring only the government's view that land is needed or likely to be needed, while Rule 4 and the related reports and agreement under section 41 concern the later section 6 declaration stage. The compensation rule in section 23, which values land by reference to the date of the section 4 notification, also supports this reading. Earlier contrary observations were not treated as binding. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 20 Feb 1985 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194107