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The tribunal reasoned that “sporadic and stray entries successful the gross records cannot beryllium said to confer immoderate title” oregon ownership.
The Delhi High Court connected Monday junked pleas by respective residents of Chak Chilla colony claiming that adjacent arsenic the parcels of onshore they owned were located successful the denotified country of the village, the plots were acquired for the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) without suitable compensation oregon rehabilitation.
Justice Dharmesh Sharma, portion disposing of the pleas with a “token cost” of Rs 5,000 connected each of the 5 petitioners, alternatively held that the petitioners are encroaching the acquired onshore successful the colony successful the Yamuna floodplain area, “thereby causing a hold successful the implementation of the nationalist projects…entailing immense nationalist costs and nonaccomplishment to the revenues of the State and its instrumentalities.”
The petitioners — farmers and cattlemen — moved the tribunal successful 2023, claiming possession of the cultivation onshore situated successful the gross property of Chak Chilla, Defence Colony, which falls connected the northeastern slope of the Yamuna River. They had relied connected jamabandi (record of rights) records from the twelvemonth 2012-13. The tribunal reasoned that “sporadic and stray entries successful the gross records cannot beryllium said to confer immoderate title” oregon ownership.
Justice Sharma reasoned, “I find that the petitioners are miserably failing to show immoderate legal, right, rubric oregon involvement successful their favour truthful arsenic to question immoderate extortion from dispossession upon parcels of onshore claimed to beryllium nether their concern since the clip of their ancestors…except for a bald reliance connected the jamabandi grounds pertaining to the twelvemonth 2012-13..”
“…the plea raised by the learned counsel for the petitioners that their onshore falls successful the denotified country of colony Chak Chilla cannot beryllium sustained. The mischief being orchestrated by the petitioners is evident arsenic it is evident that aft demolition enactment was taken for removal of unauthorised encroachment and construction, the petitioners person attempted to reclaim the spot by not leaving the tract and carrying connected cultivation successful the quality of increasing of vegetables. Their plea that they should not beryllium dispossessed but by owed process of instrumentality connected the look of it is fallacious,” the tribunal concluded portion refusing to assistance immoderate relief.
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