SC clears way for developers in #NoidaExtension, #GreaterNoida

In what is likely to clear the shadow of uncertainty over more than 100 private housing projects in Greater Noida and Noida Extension, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that no land acquisition proceedings will be quashed any further.

Granting a virtual go-ahead to builders to carry out construction without worrying about the fate of the land acquired, a bench led by Chief Justice H L Dattu said the conditions set by the Allahabad High Court while upholding the acquisition holds good and there will be no further stipulations. The judgment relates to 65 villages – 42 in Greater Noida and 23 in Noida Extension. Most of these villages run parallel to the Yamuna Expressway.

The High Court, in its verdict in 2011, had ordered enhanced compensation for villages where acquisition proceedings passed the muster, while also quashing the notification for acquisition of land in various other villages in Noida, Greater Noida and Noida Extension in Uttar Pradesh.