Issuing the orders, division bench Chief Justice Prakash Chandra Tatia and Justice Jaya Roy observed that land acquisition did not depend on the will of the people, and the government should complete the project.
The bench has been hearing PIL filed by two students on behalf of the National Law University, Ranchi, and Bar Association of Jharkhand High Court.
The petitions submitted that land at Nagari, being acquired for the National Law University, Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi, and Indian Institute of Information Technology, was not fertile, as claimed by the villagers.
The high court, which had on July 16 ruled out return of land acquired by the state government in Nagri way back in 1957-58, fixed the next hearing on October 3.
The villagers have been resisting acquisition of land and they pulled down the boundary wall at the site on July 4, which had led to a clash with the police.