Writ plea challenging the acquisition for land for Smart City adjourned

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday adjourned to next Friday for instruction a writ petition challenging the acquisition for land for Smart City.

According to the petitioner, Abdul Khader of Padukkara, Kakkanad, the notification issued on October 15, 2004, by the government under Section 6 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act, got lapsed as no award was passed pursuant to the notification within the time stipulated by law.

The petitioner, however, received a notice on April26, 2007, asking him to give vacant possession of the land by May2, 2007.The notice refers to an award purported to have been passed.

But the petitioner neither received any intimation regarding any such award nit was any compensation amount deposited in the court. Hence the notice refers to a non existent award.

He also has a case that the compensation offered was not in consonance with the current market price and that there is no package for rehabilitation of the persons displaced, including the petitioner.