The courts cannot don the hat of a town planner or that of an accountant to minutely examine whether a slightly lesser extent of land would have fulfilled the objective of a project or whether the project could have been implemented satisfactorily at another location, said the High Court of Karnataka.
A Division Bench comprising Justice Krishna S. Dixit and Justice P. Krishna Bhat made these observations in its judgment of dismissing pleas against acquisition of around 1,275 acres of lands for Upper Krishna Project’s Unit-III rehabilitation scheme in two villages of Bakalkot district in 2013.
