Lucknow-agra expressway: HC dismisses plea challenging land acquisition

Passing the order, the court said “most of the objections did not contain any ground or reason to point out why the acquisition was bad, unwanted or arbitrary or there was no public purpose”.

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Some of the issues on which the petitioners from Uravar Hashtaraf and Aslempur Nagla Kanhar villages under Shikohabad tehsil of Firozabad district had challenged the land acquisition proceedings in the matter were: a gap of more than one year between notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 (the Act) and Section 6, both of which pertain to declaration of intention by the state government to acquire land for public purpose; and the farmers’ objections were not properly considered under Section 5-A of the Act, which provides opportunities to land owners to object to acquisition.