ORDER :

CIVIL APPEAL NO.16960/2017 (@ SLP(C) NO.13802/2016)

1. Leave granted.

2. We have heard learned Senior Counsel appearing for the parties and perused the record.

3. At this stage, the only issue that has been raised before us is regarding parity of compensation allowed by this Court in Narendra & Ors. vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. [Civil Appeal Nos.10429-10430 of 2017], on the one hand, and the compensation awarded to the appellants herein by the courts below on the other.

4. The appellants have been awarded compensation at the rate of Rs.160/-per square yard. While in Narendra's case (supra), the appellants have been awarded compensation at the rate of Rs.297/- per square yard.

5. It is obvious that the lands in Narendra's case (supra) for which a sum of Rs.297/-per square yard has been awarded as compensation, are situated in village Makanpur, District Ghaziabad, U.P. Those lands were acquired and handed over to Ghaziabad Development Authority for planned development of Vaishali.

6. The lands in the instant case are also situated in Village Makanpur, District Ghaziabad, U.P. Village Makanpur is an area known as Indirapuram in the District of Ghazibad, U.P.

7. Mr. Basava Prabhu