Half for the owners, half for the garage that worked there: a Bombay court shares compensation fairly

When land in Mumbai's Prabhadevi was acquired for the Shree Siddhivinayak temple trust, two claims stood on the same plot: the family that owned it, and Sadanand Garage, the tenant that had worked there for years. The Bombay High Court, in a judgment by Justice Amit Borkar delivered on November 3, refused to value the land by the government's ready-reckoner rates — figures with no legal basis for market value — and instead priced it from real registered sales nearby, at Rs 1,70,200 per square metre. The total compensation of ₹10.94 crore (about $1.15 million) is split equally: ₹5.47 crore (about $575,000) to the owners, ₹5.47 crore (about $575,000) to the garage whose tenancy the court found genuine. A claim by a developer and would-be flat buyers was turned away, with their separate legal remedies left open.

SDG 16 · Peace, justice and strong institutions — Mechanism: legal ruling