NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the then Bhupinder Singh Hooda government's decision to notify acquisition of one,400 acres of land in Gurugram allegedly to assist developers and colonisers at the price of farmers and landowners in 2009.
Dismissing a Haryana government enchantment towards the 2014 judgment of the Punjab and Haryana prime courtroom, a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Mohan M Shantanagoudar directed the CBI to probe how, whilst 1,400 acres have been proposed to be obtained in 2009, best 87 acres have been in reality obtained, leaving the remaining to developers and colonisers to purchase.
Asking CBI to record its document ahead of the courtroom in six months, the bench agreed with the landowners' suggest, Jasbir Singh Malik, who mentioned the acquisition was a colourable exercise and a misuse of powers vested underneath the land acquisition regulation.
On June 2, 2009, the Haryana government issued a notification intending to acquire 1,400 acres in villages Badshapur, Behrampur, Nangli Umarpura, Tigara, Ullahwas, Kadarpur, Ghatta and Medwas in Sohna tehsil of Gurugram district for development of "residential sectors 58 to 63 and residential-commercial sectors 65 to 67 in Gurugram as shown in development plan under Haryana Urban Development Authority Act".
This was puzzled by means of a lot of landowners when they discovered that the general notification drastically curtailed the acquisition to 87 acres of land and a major portion of the remainder land have been allocated to developers. The prime courtroom mentioned the public function — development of residential and residential-commercial sectors in Gurugram — may just no longer be met with acquisition of 87 acres and hence the general notification did not conform to the public function as said in June 2009.
The landowners alleged their land have been obtained by means of the federal government in an effort to give undue favours to non-public developers. The prime courtroom had mentioned: "The petitioners appear to be right in contending that since they did not come under the pressure tactics of the land mafia prowling in the area, their land have been usurped (through acquisition) out of vengeance."
The Haryana government had contended that 87 acres of land was obtained to build colleges, hospitals, neighborhood centres and different software buildings, but the prime courtroom had mentioned the developers got land, it was their responsibility, and no longer that of the state government, to supply for those civic facilities.
The prime courtroom had learn during the design of the state government in the sham acquisition process and had mentioned: "State machinery has bent over backwards to favour private colonisers (sic)...the collector, for reasons best known to him, completely abdicated his duty and sent a report to favour the cause of private builders. The petitioners' land is being expropriated only because they refused to come to the terms unilaterally dictated to them by the state-sponsored developers."
Dismissing a Haryana government enchantment towards the 2014 judgment of the Punjab and Haryana prime courtroom, a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Mohan M Shantanagoudar directed the CBI to probe how, whilst 1,400 acres have been proposed to be obtained in 2009, best 87 acres have been in reality obtained, leaving the remaining to developers and colonisers to purchase.
Asking CBI to record its document ahead of the courtroom in six months, the bench agreed with the landowners' suggest, Jasbir Singh Malik, who mentioned the acquisition was a colourable exercise and a misuse of powers vested underneath the land acquisition regulation.
On June 2, 2009, the Haryana government issued a notification intending to acquire 1,400 acres in villages Badshapur, Behrampur, Nangli Umarpura, Tigara, Ullahwas, Kadarpur, Ghatta and Medwas in Sohna tehsil of Gurugram district for development of "residential sectors 58 to 63 and residential-commercial sectors 65 to 67 in Gurugram as shown in development plan under Haryana Urban Development Authority Act".
This was puzzled by means of a lot of landowners when they discovered that the general notification drastically curtailed the acquisition to 87 acres of land and a major portion of the remainder land have been allocated to developers. The prime courtroom mentioned the public function — development of residential and residential-commercial sectors in Gurugram — may just no longer be met with acquisition of 87 acres and hence the general notification did not conform to the public function as said in June 2009.
The landowners alleged their land have been obtained by means of the federal government in an effort to give undue favours to non-public developers. The prime courtroom had mentioned: "The petitioners appear to be right in contending that since they did not come under the pressure tactics of the land mafia prowling in the area, their land have been usurped (through acquisition) out of vengeance."
The Haryana government had contended that 87 acres of land was obtained to build colleges, hospitals, neighborhood centres and different software buildings, but the prime courtroom had mentioned the developers got land, it was their responsibility, and no longer that of the state government, to supply for those civic facilities.
The prime courtroom had learn during the design of the state government in the sham acquisition process and had mentioned: "State machinery has bent over backwards to favour private colonisers (sic)...the collector, for reasons best known to him, completely abdicated his duty and sent a report to favour the cause of private builders. The petitioners' land is being expropriated only because they refused to come to the terms unilaterally dictated to them by the state-sponsored developers."
CBI to probe 2009 land acquisition scam in Gurugram
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