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A Veteran’s Plea Against Fraudulent Land Acquisition in Haryana I am a retired Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force and former Director at the Indian Council of Historical Research, Government of India. I respectfully bring to light the wrongful acquisition of my 1-kanal residential plot (Khasra No. 126//66/12-7) in Hill View Enclave, Pinjore, Haryana, acquired under the Pinjore-Kalka Urban Development Scheme by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA). The plot was purchased via a registered sale deed dated 21.08.1989 and had been partially constructed in accordance with a municipal plan. It remains surrounded by spared structures — wall-to-wall built-up plots, a school, and houses across the road. Despite this, my constructed plot was not released from acquisition. Documents obtained under RTI expose a systematic distortion in the land acquisition process. On 23.07.2008, the then Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) Mr. K.K. Amrohi submitted a legally mandated report under Section 5A(2) of the Land Acquisition Act, recommending the release of 31.65 acres, including my plot, based on valid objections such as Joint Objection No. 13. However, Mr. Amrohi was relieved on 04.08.2008. Despite being functus officio, the report was illegally retrieved by a Patwari on 08.08.2008 and used as a basis for further processing. The Administrator, HUDA Panchkula (who also chaired the Joint Site Inspection Committee or JSIC), convened a meeting on 19.08.2008 with the newly posted LAO Mr. Devender Kaushik. This JSIC arbitrarily reduced the release to 22.10 acres, altered Mr. Amrohi’s original recommendations, and omitted valid objections, including mine. The JSIC’s minutes falsely presented these changes as part of the LAO’s report. This misrepresentation was submitted to the Government and later to the Supreme Court. In SLP (C) No. 21786 of 2010, the Supreme Court was misled to believe that the State Government had accepted the LAO’s report recommending release of only 22.10 acres. This was patently false. The Punjab and Haryana High Court in CWP No. 15150 of 2010 later clarified that Mr. Amrohi had in fact recommended 31.65 acres. Further, in “Raghbir Singh Sehrawat v. State of Haryana (2012 SCC OnLine P&H 11803)”, it was held that if an LAO is transferred before the Section 6 declaration, the new LAO must hear objections afresh. No such de novo hearing occurred in my case, violating this legal principle. Urban Estates’ letter dated 01.03.2013 confirms that physical possession of my plot had not been taken, and no compensation notice was ever served to my verified outside-Haryana address. This is not merely a case of misadministration—it is a fraud on law, the courts, and the rights of a serving soldier. I respectfully urge the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India , Cabinet Secretary of India to request the Chief Secretary of Haryana to restore the LAO’s original recommendations and release my lawfully owned and protected residential plot from acquisition.
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