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Apex court asks Mayawati why her plot was not acquired
Calcutta News.Net
Monday 16th November, 2009 (IANS)
The Supreme Court has sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's
stand on a lawsuit by a resident of the state's Badalpur village, who
alleges that while his plot was acquired by the government, the plot
owned by Mayawati in the same village was exempted.
A bench of Justice H.S. Bedi and Justice J.M. Panchal sought
Mayawati's stand, issuing notice to her in her personal capacity and
not as chief minister. Notices were issued early this month to
Mayawati's father Prabhu Dayal and brother Anand as well.
On the lawsuit by Khazan Singh of Badalpur village in Gautam Budh
Nagar -- an Uttar Pradesh district adjacent to national capital New
Delhi -- notices were issued also to the state government, the Gautam
Budh Nagar collector and the Greater Noida Development Authority,
which had issued notification in June 2007 to acquire Singh's plot.
Singh has moved the apex court, challenging the September 2009 order
of the Allahabad High Court, upholding the state government's land
acquisition notification for the development of Greater Noida.
In his lawsuit challenging the notification, Singh has alleged that
the government is out to grab his 0.6410 hectare (around 7,000 square
metre) plot, while exempting Mayawati's land spread over 4,7433.36
square yards (39,369 square metre) where she is constructing a
bungalow.
The high court had dismissed Singh's lawsuit after the state
government and the Greater Noida Development Authority said the plot
belonging to the chief minister and her relatives were for residential
purposes and accordingly out of the ambit of the Land Acquisition Act.
Singh's counsel Ashok Mathur has contended that his client's plot is
also for residential purposes.
'This is borne out by the fact that Greater Noida Development
Authority has even fixed the circle rate of the area, where his land
lies, at Rs.8,000 per square metre. This clearly indicates the entire
land of the village has been considered as abadi (residential) land,'
said Mathur.
Complaining about the government's alleged bias in favour of the chief
minister, Singh said the government had gone to the extent of changing
the category of Mayawati's plot from agricultural to non-agricultural
to keep it out of the ambit of acquisition.
The conversion took place in May 2006, a year before the notification
to acquire land was issued, Singh said in his lawsuit.
Questioning the protection granted to Mayawati's plot, Singh has also
assailed the acquisition order on the ground that Badalpur village was
beyond the notified area of the Greater Noida Development Authority.
He has alleged that the authority has so far failed to develop 60
percent of the area it acquired after it came into existence in 1991.
Greater Noida Development Authority had issued the acquisition
notification of land in Badalpur in June 2007 under an emergency
clause. The Uttar Pradesh government wants to develop the area to
attract foreign investors to the region.
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