HC rule comes as setback for Noida housing projects

The Allahabad high court on November 7 passed a judgment imposing a stay on 802 acres of land bringing relief to Noida farmers in a major setback to housing projects being developed in the area.

The court also cracked down on the district administration for not complying with the earlier order of categorising registered and unregistered land in the region. Projects in the areas between Sectors 74 and 79 and Sectors 112 and 119 in Noida are likely to be hampered by the judgment. Thousands of housing units are being developed by at least half a dozen developers in the region.

The Allahabad court also ordered the administration not to permit anyone to change the nature of the land and also directed it not to interfere in the peaceful possession of land by farmers.

The court passed the order while hearing a bunch of petitions filed by villagers of Noida who claimed that their lands were wrongly possessed by the administration in 1982. The court asked the district magistrate to appear before it on the next date of hearing.