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The issue of land acquisition is once again flaring up. As many as 280 cases have landed in the Supreme Court under the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Act of 2013 in the past three years, says a study by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR).
Of these, 200 cases involved the Delhi Development Authority alone. Surprisingly, the Supreme Court has invalidated acquisition in 94.6 per cent of these cases, as shown in chart 1.
The CPR study shows that appeals to the apex court on land acquisition under various laws have surged in the first part of
