India, July 15 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday has set aside a 1986 land acquisition award and a 2017 corrigendum related to the acquisition of a Kurla land parcel for the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) finding the acquisition process faulty as notices were served on the wrong persons instead of the actual landowners.

The case was contested by four legal heirs of Ahamad Dada, who owned a 1,613 sq m portion of land acquired for the SCLR project. They argued that neither Ahamad nor his heirs were issued notices under the Land Acquisition Act before the land was taken over through an acquisition award in September 1986.

They also challenged a corrigendum issued in April 2017, arguing that the corrigendum sought to rectify the lapse ...