Land acquisition law fraud by sick people: Supreme Court

Dispelling the notion largely created by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that the land acquisition model adopted by Haryana is the best for being considerate towards the deprived land owners, the Supreme Court has complimented the BJP government in Gujarat for having a policy that doesn’t permit “forced” eviction of farmers from their land.

Expressing serious concern over the increasing incidents of government forcibly acquiring land for industries and residential schemes, the apex court on Thursday remarked that the law ought to be scrapped as it is a “fraud” devised by some “sick people”.

However, the judges had all applauds for the Narendra Modi government for its land acquisition policy that doesn’t generate “complaints of any forcible acquisition” unlike other states where farmers are uprooted and rendered homeless.The bench of justices G S Singhvi and HL Dattu, which a day ago scrapped the Mayawati government’s order acquiring land for the construction of a district jail, warned that if remedial measures are not initiated then in another “five years muscle men would take over the private land and utter chaos would prevail as the prices of land are shooting up everywhere”.

“The Act has become a fraud. It seems to have been devised by people with a sick mind who have scant regard for the welfare of the common man,” the court said and slammed the states while hearing several petitions filed by farmers from Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district challenging the forcible acquisition of 82 acres of land for developing a leather industry.