Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
Land Acquisition Act 1894 Section 18 | State Must Proactively Assign Panel Advocates to Prevent Statutory Interest Accumulation and Decades-Long Delay : Bombay HC
The Bombay HC mandates that government acquiring bodies must immediately assign panel advocates to old pending land acquisition appeals when original representatives leave or retire, failing which statutory interest at 15% or 9% per annum continues to accrue, causing massive public financial loss. This ruling enforces departmental accountability and closes a systemic loophole that has left hundreds of cases unrepresented for over 20 years.