In India Lose Your Land while Serving Mother- Land?

It was in 1989 that I had purchased, out of my Defence

Service Salary savings, from my Defence Service
provident Fund account, a registered residential piece of
Land in Nangal Sodian, Pinjore, Haryana for my Post
Retirement Settlement. But when the retirement came
and there was need to settle down the 1989 purchased
piece of Land was acquired by Haryana Government in
2007-2010- without Notices of actual communications.

The 1989, duly registered purchase of the residential

piece of land had been duly informed to my Defence
Service. The Residential piece of Land was reflected, year
after year, in the mandatory Property returns.

The piece of Land was duly registered with Sub Registrar,

Kalka- Haryana Government recognized my ownership
and the Title knowing fully well my then Armed Force
Rank of Squadron Leader of Indian Air Force.

I had to spend huge amounts in developing the piece of

Land. I constructed a Boundary Wall, Damp Proof Coated
and enclosed the piece of Land. I had put a Name Plate
of my Defence Service Rank and Name on the Gate of my
walled Enclosure.

From 1989 to 1995 there was no objection from any one.

From 1995 to 2001 there was no objection from any one.
From 2001 to 2005 there was no objection from any one.

All in the revenue Department of Haryana knew that I

had my piece of Land as an Air Force Officer, that the
adjacent piece of Land, duly enclosed and Name Plated
belonged to my younger brother again an Infantry
Officer. That the next to my youngest brother's lay the
developed and name plated plot of my middle brotherserving in the Para Military Forces. It is during the fag
end of my service 2007-2010 that the acquisition was
effected without Notice or an inkling.

We had not purchased the plots for investment. Many

people sold theirs and bought bigger plots else where.
But we were to settle down after our respective
retirements from the services. I had sited the Plot for
Center For Historical Research, Haryana and also for the

settlement of my Physically Challenged Son. Its all on

record, known to Haryana Government.

I retired in September 2010. Now was the time to take

care of my self, my old parent and physically challenged
ward as the Service was over wherein Service before Self
was the key note, ingrained in head and heart.

It was learnt that on 26.09.2007 the Haryana

Government had issued a Notification intending to
acquire the developed Land, leaving barren open tracts of
Land for handing it over to Haryana Urban Development
Authority (HUDA) for developing it as Sectors for Pinjore
and selling it at exorbitant prices- couching it as Public
Purpose.

There was no Master Plan in existence in 1989 when my

small piece of Land was registered with Sub Registrar,
Kalka as residential Piece of Land/ Plot.

It is on record, as learnt later, that the Land Acquisition

Officer Panchkula submitted in his Report dated
23.07.2008 that the Plots of Land, including mine, be
exempted from acquisition.

But the Land Acquisition Officer was promptly

transferred out. A Joint Site Inspection Committee
headed by the Administrator HUDA reversed the
recommendations of the Land Acquisition Officer and on
25.09.2008 the Notification was issued including the

pieces of Land of the Soldiers and Ex Servicemen in the

Acquisition while exempting pieces of Land wherein there
were constructed/ inhabited pieces of Land as per some
Policy of the Haryana Government. How could Soldiers
serving away, at far off places, inhabit theirs?

On 24.09.2010 , it is learnt later, an Award was passed

by the Land Acquisition Officer and it is stated on the
same very day the Paper possession of the Land en-block
was handed over by the Urban Estates Department to
HUDA. The Possession , however, continued with us.

I retired in end September 2010 and thereafter have

been corresponding till date with Haryana Government,
requesting release of registered residential piece of Land.

The Replies have been- the matter is being looked in to

(May 2011)- that the case has been forwarded to
Haryana Urban Estates Department as the power to free
from acquisition is vested with Director Urban Estates
(November 2013).

In January 2014 the Urban Estates Deoartment released

from Acquisition a piece of Land , similarly acquired in
the same Acquisition Proceeding in the same area during
2007-2010 , belonging to one Shri Jitender Kumar
Sharma- an open, an un-built piece of Land- groundsthe CM Haryana was interested in releasing that piece of
Land- and that the said Mr Sharma was/ is in the Indian
Revenue Service!

I have not approached any Court of Law so far as the

Lawyers charge quite a lot of money and that fighting
against the State of Haryana is tough task.

The Indian Ministry of Defence / Prime Minister Office/

Office of the Chief Minister of Haryana have not listened
to my appeals wherein I had requested the release of my
piece of Land as in the case of Shri Jitender Kumar
Sharma.

We, all the brothers, in the Armed Forces along with our
three sons in the Indian Army, have submitted to CM,
Haryana, PMO, Defence Minister of India and even the
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of India that

when the Acquisition process was initiated by the State of

Haryana:-

(i) No cognizance was taken of the Fact that India was no

longer Bengal Presidency wherein the Land Acquisition
Act 1894 was applied . The Boundaries and Territories of
India, being far more vaster than at those olden times,
there was need to have apprised us through the Internet
Notifications or through Ministry of Defence, Union of
India or at least at our addresses as it was well known,
through the Revenue records of the State of Haryana that
we were all in the Services, staying away from Haryana
where neither the State Gazette Notifications nor the
Local Newspapers reached.

(ii) No Notices under Section 4, 6, 11 and 12 of the Land

Acquisition Act 1894 were ever sent to us either at our
registered Addresses or at Armed Forces Headquarters.

(iii) Till date the neither the Defence Ministry nor

anyother Office has released our only pieces of Land
whereas the Plots of others- non Soldiers- have been
released and they were asked to pay only Developmental
charges.

May I request all of you, my countrymen and brethern

Soldiers,all over, to take up the case with the Defence
Minister, PMO and the CM of Haryana to release from
acquisition the residential pieces of Land of those Soldiers

and those in the Service of the Union of India, serving

away from Haryana during 2007- 2010.
May I request the Supreme Commander of the Armed
Forces of India, Prime Minister of India and the Defence
Minister of India as also to the Chief Minister of Haryana
to kindly release the residential pieces of Land of ours.
The Plot, adjacent left and contiguous to that of mine has
already been exempted from acquisition in 2011 by the
Orders of the High Court.

The Plots to the right of ours have also been exempted.

May I request the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India to
order an investigation in to the matter.

There is no other Country in the World, wherein, to my

best of knowledge and belief, this sort of injustice
prevails.
Must we lose our Land for serving the Mother- Land?