A week after the Supreme Court upheld the Allahabad High Court’s verdict quashing farmers’ land acquisition in Noida Extension, the Greater Noida Authority is gearing up to file a counter affidavit in the coming week.
According to senior officials, the Authority would file the counter affidavit in the Allahabad High Court by Monday as per the directives of the High Court.
Rama Raman, CEO, Greater Noida Authority said the Authority would be filing a counter affidavit in Allahabad High Court against the land acquisition quashing petitions by farmers of various villages.
“In our affidavit, we would contest the villagers’ petitions against the emergency clause just as we have submitted in Supreme Court. We have told the court that the emergency clause was evoked because we wanted speedy development without the land being encroached. We want that section 4 of the land acquisition Act should not be revoked in cases of farmers who have received the compensation and those who have agreed to take the compensation,” added the CEO.
Section 4 of the Act says that whenever it appears to the ( appropriate Government) the land in any locality (is needed or) is likely to be needed for any public purpose (or for a company), a notification to that effect shall be published in the Official Gazette and the matter should be advertised in all leading publications.
The Authority’s legal department is working overtime to make it sound convincing to the court as to why the land was acquired despite farmers’ unwillingness, Raman added. “We have agreed that we would do away with the emergency clause in further land acquisitions and will inform villagers to hear their objections before the land is allocated to others,” he said.
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