The auction of 25 properties of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was postponed for indefinite period on Thursday. The
The auction of 25 properties of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was postponed for indefinite period on Thursday. The auction of these properties was scheduled to be put under hammer on Thursday. HUDA has planned to auction some shops in Industrial Area Phase II and Sector 20.
It is pertinent to mention here that a local court had attached these properties due to non-payment of compensation to land owners, whose land had been acquired by land acquisition officer. Last week, the local court had directed attachment of these sites. In June, 1983, when 20 landowners at Maheshpur village challenged the compensation against the acquisition of land for Sector 21. Later in the year 1996, the Punjab and Haryana High court fixed the compensation as Rs 2.25 lakh per acre. The order was upheld by apex court in 2008 as well and it was directed that the compensation be disbursed within two months. However, the payment was not released and the land owners moved local court following which the properties to be auctioned were ordered to be attached.
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