Overview
- A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan issued notice on NHAI’s review and listed the case for November 11 at 3 PM.
- Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court the potential fiscal impact is about ₹32,000 crore, up from an earlier ₹100 crore figure cited in filings.
- In Tarsem Singh (2019), the Supreme Court struck down Section 3J of the National Highways Act and applied Land Acquisition Act provisions on solatium and interest to NHAI acquisitions.
- On February 4, the bench rejected NHAI’s bid to make Tarsem Singh prospective, holding that such a move would nullify the remedy and perpetuate an Article 14 inequality.
- The court has directed competent authorities to compute solatium and interest for affected acquisitions between 1997 and 2015 without reopening cases that have attained finality.