Need 10-yr record of industries,land acquired in Noida,Greater Noida: HC

The bench,comprising Justices S U Khan,Ashok Bhushan and V K Shukla,on Wednesday asked the authorities to furnish the necessary information in this regard while hearing the petitions from three villages,Ghori Bachcheda,Saakipur and Patwari.

“The court has asked the two authorities to furnish the records of the last 10 years on the notifications issued for land acquisition,how many industries have come to these two cities. Also,the court wanted to know whether they had taken the approval from the NCRPB. Since the region comes in the National Capital Region,the authorities have to get their regional plans approved from the Planning Board,” said Saurav Basu,counsel for petitioners from Ghori Bachcheda.

The grounds for the petitioners remained more or less the same as in the case with other

villages.

“Our main prayers were unjust use of urgency clause,no utilisation of the acquired piece of land despite acquiring it on an urgent basis,selling the land acquired in the name of planned industrial development and then selling it to private developers by changing the land use,” Basu said.