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| Land acquisition for Semi Ring Road: HC directs to restore Collector's powers | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 28: In an interesting direction by High Court related to land acquisition for Semi Ring Road in Srinagar, the court of acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe has directed that all the record of land acquisition in Chadoora sub division in Budgam should be immediately transferred to Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Chadoora so that he can take up the process of land acquisition in his sub division which until now had been undertaken by Assistant Commissioner (Revenue) Budgam.
As reported on January 23 by Early Times, SDM Chadoora Budgam had been designated as Collector Land Acquisition but he was not handed over the documents and record by the authorities particularly the Collector LA Budgam tehsil/ACR Budgam.
After being 'prevented' from performing his duties, the SDM Chadoora Shabir Ul Hassan had written a letter to Deputy Commissioner Budgam (vide No: SDM/Misc/ 2088-92, dated 31.10.2017) wherein he requested the latter to transfer land acquisition record from ACR Budgam's office to Chadoora.
But inspite of a lapse of more than seven months the record is yet to be transferred to SDM's office and people continue to suffer.
As some locals of Kuzwera, Chadoora had filed a petition for payment of unfair compensation by the government, this matter was also agitated in the writ petition. Counsel for the petitioners Altaf Haqqani argued that the farmers are paid unfair compensation during land acquisition.
To this lawyer representing National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) reiterated that NHAI is ready to pay four times more compensation to affected farmers provided the J&K government adopts central Land Acquisition Act.
Justice Aradhe directed the government to transfer record to SDM Chadoora and ordered payment of fair compensation. The case is again listed for hearing next month. |
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