Court No. - 38
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 68297 of 2013 Petitioner :- Jagdish Prasad Sharma Respondent :- State Of U.P. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Suneel Rai,Sanjay Kumar Mishra Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Ramendra Pratap Singh
Hon'ble Abhinava Upadhya,J.
Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J.
Heard Shri Sanjay Kumar Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner; Shri Ramendra Pratap Singh, learned counsel for the Greater Noida Development Authority-respondent no. 2 and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondent no. 1.
In the present writ petition the petitioner seeks to challenge the land acquisition notification issued under Section 4(1)/17(4) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 dated 8.11.2007 and notification under Section 6/17 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 dated 7.7.2008 in respect of Khata No. 182, Khasra No. 171, 218M and 487 total area 2.7850 hectare situate in Village-Khairpur Gurjar, Tehsil-Dadri, District-Gautam Budh Nagar.
It is common ground between the parties that the aforementioned land acquisition notification was subject matter of the judgment of this Court in the case of Gajraj and others Vs. State of U.P. and others reported in 2011 (11) ADJ 1 (FB).
Shri Ramendra Pratap Singh, learned counsel appearing for the Greater Noida Development Authority-respondent no. 2 submits that the claim of the petitioner is covered by the said decision and the petition may be disposed of in terms of the directions issued in Paragraph 482 sub-para (3) of the said judgment, which are as follows :
"3. All other writ petitions except as mentioned above at (1) and (2) are disposed of with following directions:
(a) The petitioners shall be entitled for payment of additional compensation to the extent of same ratio (i.e. 64.70%) as paid for village Patwari in addition to the compensation received by them under 1997 Rules/award which payment shall be ensured by the Authority at an early date. It may be open for Authority to take a decision as to what proportion of additional compensation be asked to be paid by allottees. Those petitioners who have not yet been paid compensation may be paid the compensation as well as additional compensation as ordered above. The payment of additional compensation shall be without any prejudice to rights of land owners under Section 18 of the Act, if any.
(b) All the petitioners shall be entitled for allotment of developed Abadi plot to the extent of 10% of their acquired land subject to maximum of 2500 square meters. We however, leave it open to the Authority in cases where allotment of abadi plot to the extent of 6% or 8% have already been made either to make allotment of the balance of the area or may compensate the land owners by payment of the amount equivalent to balance area as per average rate of allotment made of developed residential plots."
The writ petition is disposed of in the aforesaid terms.
Order Date :- 23.1.2019 Sunil Kr. Gupta (Dr. Y. K. Srivastava, J.) (Abhinava Upadhya, J.)