Land retention: ₹1.5 lakh cost on MHADA, Solapur civic body
The Free Press Journal|January 08, 2025
The Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and the Solapur Municipal Corporation to pay Rs50,000 each to three land owners whose lands were requisitioned in 1987, but were retained for 37 years without proper acquisition.
Urvi Mahaj

The lands were requisitioned in 1987 under the Bombay Land Requisition Act, 1948 by MHADA, which was at the time special planning authority for the area concerned - under the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 (MHADA Act).

A bench of Justices MS Sonak and Jitendra Jain has clarified that the authorities are free to initiate proceedings to acquire the petitioners' properties under the relevant law relating to compulsory acquisition.

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