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2022 Supreme(All) 847

RAJESH BINDAL, PIYUSH AGRAWAL
Runwell India Pvt. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
State of Uttar Pradesh – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. V.M. Zaidi, Senior Advocate with Mr. M.J. Akhtar, Mr. Pankaj Dubey, Mr. Manu Khare, Mr. Rishu Mishra, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Mr. Shiv Kant Mishra, Mr. Saurabh Basu, Mr. Manoj Pandey, Mr. Ganga Dhar Shukla, Mr. Satendra Singh, Mr. Dharmendra Pandey, Mohd. Umar Khan, Mr. Awadesh Prasad, Mr. Ved Prakash Pandey, Mr. Puneet Verma, Mr. Kamal Singh Yadav, Mr. Ravindra Narayan Singh, Mr. Sunil Kumar Rai, Mr. Uma Nath Pandey, Mr. Durga Prasad Tiwari, Mr. Anshul Kumar Singhal, Mr. Kamlesh Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sunil Nagar, Mr. Nawal Kishore Mishra, Mr. Gautam Kumar, Mr. Harendra Singh, Mr. Navin Kumar, Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Mr. Anil Kumar Dubey, Mr. Raj Narayan Tiwari, Mr. Ram Sajiwan Mishra, Mr. Amit Kumar, Mr. Ram Raksha Yadav, Mr. Awdhesh Kumar Mishra, Mr. Swapnil Kumar, Mr. Vijay Shyam Bhaskar, Mr. Ratnesh Kumar Srivastava, Mr. Sanchit Nidhi, Ms. Nandini Mishra, Mr. Prem Sagar Dubey, Mr. Haseen Ahmad, Mr. Shailendra Kumar Mishra, Mr. Vidya Prakash Singh, Mr. Raj Kumar Kesari, Mr. Rohit Nandan Pandey, Mr. Tej Bahadur Rai, Ms. Hemlata Srivastava, Mr. Piyush Shukla, Mr. Hira Lal Singh (Kushwaha), Mr. Sharda Prasad Pandey, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal, Mr. Prashant Kumar Tripathi, Mr. Chandra Bhan Dubey,Mohd. Arif, Advocates.
For the Respondents:Mr. Vineet Pandey, Chief Standing Counsel with Mr. A.K. Goel, Mr. Suresh Singh, Mr. Ramanand Pandey, Mr. G.C Saxena, Additional Chief Standing Counsels, Ms. Meenakshi Singh, Standing Counsel, Mr. Ankit Gaur, Mr. Jagdish Prakash Pathak and Mr. Ajay Prakash Paul, State Law Officers, for the State – respondents., Mr. Ramendra Pratap Singh, Mr. Bhanu Bhushan Jauhari & Ms. Anjali Upadhyay appearing for the respondents Greater Noida and Mr. Shivam Yadav and Mr. Kaushlendra Nath Singh, appearing for the respondents – Noida.

Judgement Key Points

The legal document pertains to a series of writ petitions concerning the allotment of developed land in lieu of land acquired by the government for industrial development. The core issue revolves around whether landowners are entitled to 10% of developed land, subject to a maximum of 2,500 square meters, as a benefit following land acquisition.

The court's analysis indicates that such claims are not legally tenable under the current statutory framework and judicial precedents. It emphasizes that benefits previously granted in specific, unique circumstances do not establish a right for future cases, especially when subsequent rulings clarify that such directions are not to be treated as binding precedents. The court also highlights that landowners who have executed sale deeds in favor of authorities do not have an automatic entitlement to the allotment of 10% developed land, particularly when the relevant orders and approvals have not been obtained from the appropriate authorities, including the State Government.

Further, the court notes that the directions for allotment of land are subject to approval and sanction by the State Government, and the absence of such approval renders claims invalid. The court also considers that the benefits granted in earlier judgments were based on specific facts and circumstances and cannot be extended universally or as a matter of right. As a result, the petitions seeking such allotments are dismissed, reaffirming that the legal position does not support an automatic entitlement to the claimed benefits.

In summary, the court concludes that the claim for allotment of 10% developed land, under the conditions specified, does not have a legal basis in the current legal and factual context, and the petitions are accordingly dismissed.


ORDER:

PIYUSH AGRAWAL, J.

1. The following writ petitions filed by different land owners are being decided by this common order:

GREATER NOIDA:

WRIT - C No. 21825 of 2015,

WRIT - C Nos. - 14116, 36842, 36844, 39385, 40061 and 40153 of 2017;

WRIT - C Nos. 14568, 36494 and 37044 of 2018;

WRIT -C Nos. 493, 852, 6205, 8242, 13121, 13248, 13258, 13662, 13677, 13682, 13924, 14505, 14820, 15076, 15077, 15083, 21197, 23221, 23234, 23240, 23329, 23362, 23579, 23853, 23883, 24141, 24143, 24147, 24501, 24654, 25215, 25496, 25533, 25641, 25645, 25668, 25839, 25859, 26233, 26307, 26471, 26674, 26724, 26727, 27076, 27079, 27081, 27296, 27336, 27337, 27346, 27349, 27378, 27390, 27394, 27500, 27514, 27524, 27540, 27552, 27560, 27803, 27882, 27883, 27962, 27976, 27996, 28009, 28058, 28069, 28094, 28100, 28235, 28249, 28260, 28296, 28297, 28391, 28397, 28447, 28480, 28508, 28510, 28547, 28552, 28632, 28644, 28648, 28649, 28663, 28675, 28696, 28699, 28701, 28702, 28704, 28705, 28708, 28711, 28714, 28716, 28717, 28770, 28804, 28840, 28852, 28886, 28893, 28946, 29024, 29032, 29099, 29105, 29114, 29278, 29280, 29284, 29289, 29293, 29313, 29323, 29324, 29342, 29354, 29587, 29591, 29637, 29665, 29852, 298

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