Taking note of the fact that a substantial part of the land notified for acquisition for a public purpose was subsequently released and taken by a builder, the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed the notifications vide which over 36 acres of the land in district Gurgaon had been acquired.
The land was acquired in villages of Sikanderpur Gausi, Sarhual and Chakarpur for residential and commercial purposes as part of Sector 28 urban estate, Gurgaon.
While allowing a bunch of writ petitions of Amita Banta and others against the acquisition of their land on the Faridabad- Gurgaon road situated in close proximity of five star hotel Bristol and DLF Gymkhana club, the Division Bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Gel and Gurdev Singh observed in its judgment that the impugned acquisition cannot be upheld and all the proceedings in pursuance of notifications of August 13, 2001 under section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act and August 9, 2002 under section 6 of the act are quashed. As per details, nearly 90 per cent of the land notified for acquisition was later on released, while the remaining 10 per cent was retained for use for the construction of Metro rail and multi-level parking.
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