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| Advantage Centre, HC stays Maya's land scrapping order
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| INDIA
, 13-October-2008
7:18:54 AM |
| In a breather to the Railways, the Allahabad High Court on Monday ordered status quo regarding possession of land allotted to the Centre by the Mayawati government to set up a rail coach factory in Sonia Gandhi's constituency Rae Bareilly and later cancelled by the state government.
"Both parties shall maintain status quo over the land in question regarding possession," Justices Pradeep Kant and Subeeh-ul-Hasnain of the Court's Lucknow Bench observed while hearing a petition filed by the Centre challenging the UP government's decision to cancel the land allotment.
The court also directed the state government to file a counter-affidavit in a week's time. The petition was moved by the Union of India through Secretary, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways and two others.
The petitioners had challenged the UP government order issued on Sunday cancelling the land allotment on the basis of an October 10 report of the Rae Bareilly district magistrate apprehending law and order problems in case the possession of land was handed over to the Centre.
The court passed the order after state government's counsel, L P Mishra, submitted that the possession of 189.25 hectare of land for a rail coach factory shall not be taken back by the UP government nor shall it be allotted to anyone else.
The foundation stone of the project was scheduled to be laid by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi on October 14.
Arguing for the Centre, Additional Solicitor General Ashok Nigam submitted that the Railways had paid Rs 9 crore to the state government as land value and even the mutation of the land in question had been carried out.
He said the Railways had also spent another Rs 15 crore for initiation of work for establishment of the coach factory.
All of a sudden, on the basis of the district magistrate's report the state government decided to cancel the allotment of the land, he said adding that thousands of people would get employment in the proposed factory.
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