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The lawsuit against the instrumentality serviceman and immoderate landowners was registered astatine Gautam Buddha Nagar constabulary presumption successful 2021. They were granted anticipatory bail
The Supreme Court has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), comprising 3 elder IPS officers from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, to probe if the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) compensated onshore owners “exorbitantly” successful judgments passed by courts. The SIT has besides been asked to look into the “overall functioning” of the authority.
A seat of Justices Surya Kant and N K Singh issued the bid connected Thursday portion dealing with an anticipatory bail plea of a NOIDA instrumentality serviceman accused of releasing a “huge magnitude of compensation successful favour of immoderate landowners” who, it was alleged, were “not entitled to question specified a higher compensation for their acquired land”.
The SC has besides directed to probe if determination was “any collusion oregon connivance betwixt the beneficiaries and officers/officials of NOIDA…and….whether the wide functioning of NOIDA lacks transparency”.
“The SIT shall beryllium escaped to look into immoderate different allied contented that whitethorn originate for its information during the people of the investigation,” added the bench.
The SIT comprises S B Shiradkar, Additional General of Police, Lucknow Zone; Modak Rajesh D Rao, IG, CBCID, Lucknow; and Hemant Kutiyal, Commandant, Uttar Pradesh, Special Range arsenic Security Battalion, Gautam Buddha Nagar. All 3 are IPS officers of the UP cadre but bash not beryllium to the state. The lawsuit against the instrumentality serviceman and immoderate landowners was registered astatine Gautam Buddha Nagar constabulary presumption successful 2021. They were granted anticipatory bail. Subsequently, the bail was confirmed arsenic they joined the investigation.
However, erstwhile the substance came up for proceeding connected September 14, 2023, it came to airy that determination were galore specified incidents of alleged excessive compensation paid to onshore owners, “prima facie, for extraneous considerations and connected quid pro quo basis”. The tribunal past dealt with the question of whether an autarkic SIT should clasp a deeper probe into the functioning of NOIDA arsenic a statutory authority.
During aboriginal hearings, the SC said that the authorities constitution “committee” had a constricted mandate and expressed dissatisfaction implicit the outcome. It yet suggested that an SIT, comprising elder IPS officers of UP cadre who bash not beryllium to the state, beryllium constituted to infuse transparency.
The seat asked the SIT to “do the needful, preferably wrong 2 months” and taxable the study to it successful a sealed cover. The seat added that “no coercive oregon penal enactment shall beryllium taken against the landowners/farmers without” its “prior permission”.
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