Notification under Section 6 read with Section 17 was issued on December 3, 1981 and the award was published on January 15, 1986.
The respondents were directed to deposit an amount of Rs.1,57,22,056/ within one week being Rs.1,38,780/ as the companyt of acquisition and Rs.1,55,83,276/ as the amount of development fee vide separate letter dated July 29, 2011.
The land was released from acquisition on May 23, 2011 whereby an order of restoration of land in question of Khasra Nos.
The appellants were also made liable to pay companyts of Rs.1,00,000/ with the direction to recover the companyts from the authorities who have been instrumental in passing the impugned order.
It is the said order which has been set aside by the High Court vide order impugned in the present appeal.
The land of the respondents measuring 1.200 hectares forming part of land acquired was sought to be released from acquisition from the State Government under Section 17 of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 19732.
416 and 417 was passed in favour of the respondents along with an order of payment of development fee in terms of Section 17 of the Act.
1 for short, LDA Page 1 of 8 The facts leading to the present appeal are that LDA acquired total land measuring 168.592 hectares 666 Bigha, 7 Biswa, 8 Biswansi, 8 Kachwansi vide numberification dated November 12, 1981 under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 for development of Sitapur Road City Extension Scheme for residential purposes.
HEMANT GUPTA, J. Leave granted.
The appellant Lucknow Development Authority1 is aggrieved against the judgment and order passed by the Division Bench of Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on January 15, 2014 whereby the order dated July 29, 2011 passed by LDA was quashed.
