The Supreme Court yesterday issued notice on National Highway Authority of India's review petition against the judgment which rejected a plea for prospective application of the 2019 Union of India v. Tarsem Singh ruling on grant of solatium and interest for national highway land acquisitions.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan passed the order.

To recap, in Tarsem Singh , a bench of Justices Rohinton Nariman and Kant declared Section 3J of the National Highways Act 1956, to the extent it excluded solatium and interest as per Land Acquisition Act 1894 to acquisitions done under the NH Act, to be unconstitutional. It was said that the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act relating to solatium and interest contained in Section 23(1A) and (2) and interest payable

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