HC gives green signal for Metro project in East Delhi

The Delhi High Court has given green signal to the DMRC to go ahead with its project in East Delhi which had come under judicial scrutiny after it was alleged that the land was illegally alloted to the corporation. "DMRC is free to proceed with the construction of the Metro Station in the land alloted by the DDA and it would be free to deal with the said land in terms of the letter of allotment," a bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Muralidhar said while dismissing the plea of Ashok Nagar Welfare Association. The order was passed on a bunch of petitions filed by the government authorities, DMRC and welfare association. The Corporation had approached the court as the land alloted to it by the DDA was encroached by "land mafia" and the Ashok Nagar Welfare Association was objecting the project on the site. In this case the DDA was given the ownership of around 920 bighas of the south Delhi land in 1987 but it allegedly failed to take possession as it was under the control of alleged land mafia. According to the land owning agency, 600 bighas out of the total land was under illegal control. The DMRC's petition in the high court is in connection with 10 bighas of the 920 bighas of land, alloted to it by the DDA last year.

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