The Supreme Court has said that the increased compensation of 64.7 per cent coupled with allotment of developed land to the extent of 10 per cent of the land acquired from each land owner in Noida and Greater Noida would not be treated as a precedent for the award of such compensation for future acquisitions.
“We make it clear that directions of the (Allahabad) high court are given in the a unique and peculiar/specific background and, therefore, it would not form precedent for future cases,” said a bench of Chief Justice Hl Dattu, Justice AK Sikri and Justice Arun Mishra in their reasoned judgment in respect of which brief orders were pronounced on May 14.
Though the operative part of the court’s verdict was pronounced in the court on May 14 itself but the full judgement was made available only on Tuesday.
In the instant case the full bench of Allahabad High Court, by its order of October 21, 2011, while quashing the acquisition of land in 61 villages falling in Noida and Greater Noida, had allowed the Noida authority to continue to retain the acquired land instead of restoring ownership to the original land owners.