HC orders more compensation for Greater Noida landholders

The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the Greater Noida Authority to provide additional compensation and developed area to landholders of a village in Greater Noida, whose lands were being developed by private builders after acquisition.

The petitioners had sought quashing of the acquisition on account of wrong usage of urgency clause of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, as well as changing the land use from industrial to residential and commercial by giving it to private developers.