The Supreme Court has held DDA cannot go for commercial exploitation of land acquired for green belt development. It said, DDA would have to pay 50 per cent of the land value to original owners in case it is used for commercial purposes. <br/><br/>The apex court held the land acquired for green belt development from the industries can be used only for community purpose such as for opening of green belt, park, playground or open lung space and the civic agency should maintain a 'Trust Account' of such surrendered land. <br/><br/>A three-judge bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices R V Raveendran and J M Panchal passed the judgement while dealing with a PIL filed by several aggrieved industries whose land was acquired by DDA in 1996 for development of green belt area in pursuant of an apex court direction to polluting industries.<br/>