Court halts land takeover in Uttar Pradesh district
July 8th, 2011 - 12:27 am ICT by IANSLucknow, July 7 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court Thursday stalled acquisition proceedings for some 200 hectares of land spread across 10 villages in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district.
The order came on a petition moved by about 200 of the 2,700 farmers affected by a government acquisition order of 1999. The land was acquired for industrialisation.
Though the government had issued the order some 22 years ago, the farmers complained that most of them had not received any compensation so far.
Taking serious note of the issue, a bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice Rananjay Singh ruled ’status quo’ on the land that happened to be still in the possession of the farmers.
“The court order has come as a boon for the farmers whose fate was dangling on the fence because of inaction on the part of the government,” farmers’ counsel Saurabh Basu told IANS over telephone from Allahabad.
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