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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | HC cancels land acquisition of 3 Greater Noida villages

HC cancels land acquisition of 3 Greater Noida villages

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published Published on Oct 21, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 21, 2011
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In a major setback for the Uttar Pradesh government, the Allahabad High Court on Friday cancelled the land acquisition of three villages in Greater Noida.

The land acquisition of Asadallapur, Devla and Saberi villages were cancelled by the court.

As per the order, the farmers who have already taken the compensation, can return the amount and claim back their land.

The farmers in the remaining 37 villages, where planning has already taken place, will get 64 per cent additional compensation and 10 per cent of developed land.

The High Court further said that an officer of the Principal Secretary level would be appointed to look into the functioning of Greater Noida authority.

The order was passed by a specially-constituted three-judge bench comprising justices Ashok Bhushan, S U Khan and V K Shukla on the writ petition of 491 farmers who had challenged the acquisition of more than 3000 hectares of land by the state government.

The court also ordered that "no further construction shall take place in the area unless approval for the same is given by the National Capital Region Planning Board".

The court took serious note of the fact that vast tracts of land in the district were acquired by invoking the urgency clause, for the purpose of "planned industrial development". However, they were later handed over to private builders for construction of residential complexes".

"The Chief Secretary of the state is hereby directed to get an inquiry conducted into the entire process of allotment of land to private builders, by an officer not below the rank of Secretary, and submit its report to the state government".

A lawyer representing the farmers said, "There was a kind of a mafia working in collusion with the officials of the authority because the manner in which they had taken land was unfair".

"I have all sympathy with the investors, but the Supreme Court has said the dispute is purely between the farmers and builders," he said.

Surender Yadav, a farmer whose land in Itara village would fetch him compensation said, "We are not satisfied with this order. There is nothing new in it. We would have anyway got this deal two-three months back. If they don't scrap it, we will go to the Supreme Court".

The invoking of the Land Acquisition Act's urgency clause by the state government had been a major cause of resentment among the petitioners who had claimed that this had deprived them of an opportunity for raising objections and bargain for a better compensation.

Moreover, they had also been objecting to the change in "land use", pointing out that while the government notifications stated "planned industrial development" as the objective of acquiring their land, it was being later handed over to real estate developers for construction of housing complexes.

A number of builders and thousands of flat buyers who had invested in the aforesaid housing projects had also approached the High Court with the plea that any adverse order would badly affect them for no fault of theirs.

(With Additional Inputs from PTI)

CNN-IBN, 21 October, 2011, http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-cancels-land-acquisition-of-3-g-noida-villages/194993-3.html


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