A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court by a 80-year-old man who claimed to be the legal heir of a waqf property which the Uttar Pradesh Government had acquired.
The plea seeks compensation for the land to the tune of Rs 510 crore.
The plea before the Apex Court poses challenge to the decisions which were taken by the Allahabad High Court and the Fatehpur District Magistrate who denied the petitioner the grant which was due to him under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Act, 2013.
In his plea the petitioner mentioned that he has been treated unfair as the court did not grant him compensation to the property that was ancestral and belonged to his coming generations as well.
“The Petitioner is surviving legal heir of 80 years old had rightfully claimed the compensation of Rs 510 crore which was denied by the District Magistrate, Fatehpur and hence the reliefs under the above Writ Petition ought to have been granted to the Petitioner,” the plea said.
The petitioner also stated that he made many representations to the District Magistrate but it yielded nothing. He further stated that even after his father’s name was mentioned in the Office of Land Acqusition, the compensation sought was denied.
Petitioner filed the plea, through advocate Omprakash Parihar, who said that state definitely has right to take a piece of land but only with due compensations.
”Since the State of Uttar Pradesh is Welfare State and as such it not open to the State Government to take the property of citizens illegally and arbitrarily without compensation,” the plea emphasised.