Give excess land back to owners, Madras HC tells NHAI
CHENNAI: The Madras high court has directed NHAI to return unused land acquired from private individuals for establishing a four-lane road between Puducherry and Tindivanam in 2010.
The first bench of Acting Chief Justice and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarti as a condition directed the land owners to return the compensation received from the government with 9% interest per annum from the date of receipt of the compensation for getting back their lands.
According to land owners Albert Emmanual and others, when NHAI acquired land for the four-lane road in 2010, the land owned by the petitioners were also acquired.
