Ansal Township Infrastructure Ltd. vs State of Haryana

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 2234

SURESHWAR THAKUR, KULDEEP TIWARI
Ansal Township Infrastructure Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State of Haryana – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Mr. Aashish Chopra, Sr. with Ms. Mehar Nagpal and Mr. Varun Arjan Sharma, Advocates; For the Petitioners
Mr. Ankur Mittal, Addl. A.G., Haryana with Mr. Saurabh Mago, DAG, Haryana
Mr. Amit Jain, Advocate for the respondent No.8.

JUDGMENT

Mr. Kuldeep Tiwari, J.

The petitioners have deviously woven a web of artificial illegality, entangling the acquisition proceedings, which were lawfully terminated circa in the early 1970s, i.e. approx. 5 decades back. To the judicial conscience of this Court, the instant writ petition appears to be an ill-advised motion replete with a plethora of infirmities, as it proffers an intrepid venture of the petitioners, which emits a smell of foul play, besides, it also divulges the scandalous and unholy nexus prevailing inter se builders/colonizers and the Department of Town and Country Planning concerned.

2. The principal cause behind the petitioners being driven to this Court to invoke the constitutional remedy, as enshrined in Article 226 of the Constitution of India, but in utter disdain to the principles of equity, is to protect their illegal possession over lawfully acquired petition lands. This cause would never have arisen, had certain directions not been issued by this Court, in a different matter, upon the Department concerned of the respondent-State, to get vacated all encroachments, if any, from the acquired lands in the State of Haryana.

3. The instant writ petition,