D.M. Jagadish vs Bangalore Development Authority 2025 INSC 157 - Practice and Procedure - Natural Justice

Practice and Procedure - HC single bench allowed writ petitions thereby quashing the acquisition - Allowing appeal, HC Division Bench upheld it - Allowing appeal, SC observed: The approach of the Division Bench in relying on the affidavit of the authority and closing the matter on the same day, without giving an opportunity to the appellant herein to meet the averments made in the said affidavit would be in violation of the principles of natural justice. The well-reasoned order passed by the learned Single Judge has been reversed by the learned Division Bench based on the affidavit of the authority without giving an opportunity to the appellant herein to meet the averments made therein.