The Supreme Court has set aside the Allahabad High Court's order that stayed construction of houses by the Ghaziabad Development Authority for economically weaker sections in Uttar Pradesh.
The high court order had come on developer Sahara India Commercial Corporation plea challenging acquisition of its 93 acres of land by the Authority in some villages in the district.
The high court had asked GDA to maintain status quo on construction on the ground that the Uttar Pradesh government had only given symbolic and not actual possession of more than 1,234 acre of land to GDA.
A Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, while setting aside the high court order requested it "to dispose of all the petitions pending before it at an early date. As there are several petitions pending before the High Court, the same Bench may hear all these petitions".
Earlier, the bench had issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government, Sahara India Commercial Corporation, 11 other developers and others.
The Ghaziabad Development Authority's (GDA) had submitted that land had already been taken over by it and the construction was going on in the properties.
