Bombay HC: Mere silence cannot give state right to take private land

Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court recently directed Maharashtra govt to initiate fresh acquisition proceedings for private land used to construct a road in Chandrapur in 1979. It held that the state cannot claim authority to take over private property merely because the owner did not object.A division bench comprising Justices Anil Kilor and Rajnish Vyas ruled that the landowner is entitled to compensation after finding that the state had neither acquired the land nor produced any do