The Supreme Court of India, in a judgment delivered on October 15, 2025, has set aside a Bombay High Court order and restored an enhanced compensation award of over ₹20 crore to a landowner whose property was utilized by the Nashik Municipal Corporation for decades before being formally acquired. While denying a larger claim for rental compensation dating back to 1972, the bench of CJI B. R. Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih exercised its equitable jurisdiction to award interest as mesne profits to the landowner for the period between his purchase of the land and the final payment of compensation.

The case, Pradyumna Mukund Kokil vs Nashik Municipal Corporation and Others , centered on the correct valuation of acquired land under the 2013 Land Acquisition Act and the eligibilit

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