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High Court picks holes in land acquisition notification
Justice A Rajashekar Reddy termed the glaring defects in the land acquisition notification issued by the State government as “non-application of mind” and said he would be forced to quash it if the government would not remedy the mistakes.
Hyderabad: Justice A Rajashekar Reddy termed the glaring defects in the land acquisition notification issued by the State government as “non-application of mind” and said he would be forced to quash it if the government would not remedy the mistakes.
He was dealing with a petition filed by Veeranandam, a farmer of Vattem village, challenging the notification issued under Section 11(1) of the ‘The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013’ for acquiring 1,000.9 acres in Vattem and Anakhanpally villages for the construction of Vattem Balancing Reservoir under Palamuru-Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation project.
With many farmers of these villages refusing to sell their lands to the government under G.O. MS No. 123, the government issued the notification under the Land Acquisition Act 2013. The counsel for the petitioner brought to the notice of the judge the glaring defects in the notification.
The notification did not mention the gazette number and the date of publication. The Central government's ordinance 4 of 2015, which has lapsed last year, was quoted in the notification to avoid conducting the Social Impact Assessment Study and also circumvent the provisions relating to food security.
