New Delhi, March 26 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to review its ruling granting solatium and interest to landowners retrospectively under the National Highways Act, while laying down a calibrated framework that limits the reopening of claims and introduces a clear cut-off date of March 28, 2008.

A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Ujjal Bhuyan upheld its 2019 judgment as well as its February 4, 2025 order, declining to revisit the core finding that landowners are entitled to solatium and interest despite acquisitions being carried out under the special regime of the National Highways Act, 1956.

Dismissing NHAI's review plea, the court held that financial implications, even to the tune of Rs.29,000 crore,...