https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297211 A pre-Constitution amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 was held to fail the requirement of just compensation under section 299 of the Government of India Act, 1935 because it fixed compensation by reference to an arbitrary earlier date unconnected with the value at acquisition and excluded solatium. The Court treated section 299 and the constitutional compensation principle as pari materia and held the amendment void ab initio. It further held that article 31(5) could not revive a law void from inception, and that articles 31-A and 31-B did not apply to validate a dead pre-Constitution law. Compensation therefore had to be determined under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. en-us Mon, 05 Oct 1964 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:56:16 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297211 A pre-Constitution amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 was held to fail the requirement of just compensation under section 299 of the Government of India Act, 1935 because it fixed compensation by reference to an arbitrary earlier date unconnected with the value at acquisition and excluded solatium. The Court treated section 299 and the constitutional compensation principle as pari materia and held the amendment void ab initio. It further held that article 31(5) could not revive a law void from inception, and that articles 31-A and 31-B did not apply to validate a dead pre-Constitution law. Compensation therefore had to be determined under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 05 Oct 1964 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297211