August 16, 2012 1:57 PM

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SC dismisses PIL seeking quashing of land alloted to relatives of SP leaders

The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking quashing of land alloted in Lucknow to relatives of Samajwadi Party leaders and bureaucrats. The lands were alloted by the Mulayam Singh government in 2005. A bench headed by justice Aftab Alam refused to interfere in the land allotment issue after the Uttar Pradesh Government contended that the petitioner is also a beneficiary of the allotment under the discretionary quota of the state.The court also queried whether the petitioner is willing to surrender the plot alloted to him.Though his lawyer contended that there is no illegality in the land given to the petitioner by the state government.

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