25 properties' auction put off by HUDA

11 December 2009, 03:29am IST
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PANCHKULA: The auction of 25 properties of Haryana
Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was postponed
 for indefinite period on Thursday.

The auction of these properties was scheduled
to be put under hammer on Thursday. HUDA has planned
 to auction some shops in Industrial Area Phase II and Sector 20.

It is pertinent to mention here that a local court had
attached these properties due to non-payment of compensation
 to land owners, whose land had been acquired by land
 acquisition officer.

Last week, the local court had directed attachment
of these sites. In June, 1983, when 20 landowners at
Maheshpur village challenged the compensation against the
acquisition of land for Sector 21. Later in the year 1996,
 the Punjab and Haryana High court fixed the compensation
as Rs 2.25 lakh per acre. The order was upheld by apex court
in 2008 as well and it was directed that the compensation be
disbursed within two months. However, the payment was not released and
 the land owners moved local court following which the properties
to be auctioned were ordered to be attached.

Source:TOI-Chandigarh