SUPREME COURTS SAYS THE GOVERNMENT IS THE GREATEST LAND
GRABBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 multiplexes, malls, posh
residential complexes are developed which are beyond the reach of common men.
"Do you
think judges live in fools' paradise"? snapped a bench of Justices GS
Singhvi and AK Ganguly when senior advocate PP Rao responded to a question that
the residential complexes were being developed for the "needy".
"You are building hotels, malls, commercial complexes, townships where
common men have no access. Does it come under the perception of public purpose
for which the land have been acquired?"
The bench
questioned the change by Uttar Pradesh government in land use in Greater Noida
and said "this is not the plan for which the land is acquired. How
different notifications came out for changing the use of land". The sharp
remarks were made by the bench during the hearing on petitions filed by Greater
Noida Industrial Development Authority and real estate developers and builders,
challenging the Allahabad high court order which had quashed the notifications
for land acquisition in Greater Noida adjoining the national capital.
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