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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Noida land acquisition quashed, setback to Mayawati government by Atiq Khan

Noida land acquisition quashed, setback to Mayawati government by Atiq Khan

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published Published on Oct 21, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 21, 2011

Court verdict, a relief to farmers in Gautam Buddha Nagar district

In a setback to the Mayawati government and relief to farmers of Noida extension areas (Greater Noida) in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, the Allahabad High Court on Friday set aside land acquisition in three villages — Devla, Yusufpur Chaksahberi and Assadulapur — and ordered that an additional compensation of 64.70 per cent be paid to them. The farmers should also be allotted developed land measuring up to 10 per cent of the land acquired from them.

In the three villages where acquisition proceedings were quashed, the land should be restored to the petitioners (villagers), “subject to their depositing the compensation already paid to them.”

The acquisition notifications were issued on May 26, 2009, June 22, 2009, September 6, 2007, January 27, 2010 and February 2, 2010.

A special Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, S.U. Khan and V.K. Shukla directed the Greater Noida (Development Authority) and “its allottees” not to carry out any development work, and the Master Plan 2021 would not be implemented “till the observations and directions of the National Capital Region Planning Board are incorporated.”

More importantly, the court directed the Chief Secretary to order a probe by officers not below the rank of Principal Secretary into the decision to change the land use (pattern); the allotments made to builders; and the land acquisition proposals.

The landmark judgment, running to 387 pages, was delivered after the court heard arguments on 471 writ petitions filed by the farmers. These were clubbed (writ petition number 37443 of 2011 Gajraj and others versus State of Uttar Pradesh and others).

Of the 471, the court dismissed 20 petitions filed by farmers of Nithari, Sadarpur, Khoda, Sultanpur, Chaura Sadatpur and Alaverdipur. While allowing 25 petitions related to land acquisition at Devla, Yusufpur Chaksahberi and Assadulapur villages, the Bench ordered payment of additional compensation and 10 per cent of the developed land on the other 346 petitions.

The farmers of Noida extension areas, of about 4,000 acres, alleged that their land had been acquired at throwaway prices by the government invoking the “urgency clause” of the Land Acquisition Act for “industrial development.” But the same land was allotted to builders at higher prices, they complained.

Land acquisition and subsequent protests by the farmers put the government on the back foot. The issue gradually assumed political overtones following the police-farmers clash at Tappal and Bhatta-Parsaul villages. And the government resorted to firefighting, including the announcement of the new Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation Policy, albeit with retrospective effect.


The Hindu, 22 October, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2561035.ece


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