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'Win for middle-class’: Smiles & laddoos for all at Emerald Court after SC Supertech order -Tanushree Pandey

-ThePrint.in Supreme Court Tuesday ordered the demolition of two under-construction towers at Supertech's Emerald Court complex, ruling them illegal and against residents' rights. Noida: “Come have laddoos, we won today.” Anyone entering Supertech Emerald Court at Noida’s Sector 93 Tuesday was greeted by Resident Welfare Association (RWA) members with these words, and big smiles. It was a day of victory for them indeed.  After a nine-year fight against real estate major Supertech —...

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Difficult problem, difficult solutions by Ritu Kant Ojha

This is a unique situation. For governments, development authorities, lenders and borrowers alike. On Wednesday, a Supreme Court (SC) Bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi upheld a verdict of the Allahabad High Court that quashed acquisition of 176 hectares of land from farmers in Greater Noida stating that the authorities were “sub-serving” private builders in the name of public interest. Land purchased from the government was always considered ‘clean’. This verdict,...

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High Court stays another land acquisition by Pragya Kaushika

A day after the Supreme Court upheld the Allahabad High Court order quashing state acquisition of farm land in Shahberi, farmers of other villages that make Noida Extension announced they too would move court against acquisition of their land by the government. This is likely to put a spanner in the works of major building projects already underway in the area. At a panchayat in Bisrakh village on Thursday, residents of...

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SC scraps G Noida land acquisition by Bhadra Sinha

  A day after it accused states of running a sinister campaign to "grab" the land of poor farmers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a big blow to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh by quashing a 2007 notification to acquire 156.3 hectares of land in Greater Noida. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly also imposed a Rs 10 lakh fine on the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority...

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State biggest land grabber, says Supreme Court

-PTI   The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the authorities for taking advantage of the "colonial law" on land acquisition to divest farmers of their prime agricultural land benefitting the rich and paying "pittiance" to common men. The apex court said a "sinister campaign" has been launched by various state governments to take adavantage of the law against the poor people for taking away the land and giving it to builders where...

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