Highway to Y’nagar to lose 400-ft stretch

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, December 8

The old Panchkula-Yamunanagar national highway will lose a 400-foot stretch with a local court awarding its possession to a family on whose land it was constructed 68 years ago without any compensation.

Carrying papers, family members of deceased farmer Dalbir Singh Dhillon of Khera village on Saturday reached the site along with an earth-moving machine. They were, however, persuaded to return in view of the CM’s visit to the city on Sunday.

After the court in October ordered the Jagadhri SDO (Civil) to hand over the land, measuring 8 bighas and 9,822 square yards, to the Dhillon family and the kanungo carried out the demarcation, “we wrote to the DC and the SHO, Sadar, on November 22 seeking help for digging the road to make it cultivable, but there was no response,” said Kashmir Singh Dhillon. 

The family decided on self-help. “As we began digging, XEN Rishi Sachdeva reached, requesting that the work be put off, assuring a meeting with the DC on compensation. We put it off till Monday.”

ON ROAD TO RECOVERY

• Civil suit filed for possession of land in 2010
• 2014: Judge asks Haryana to hand over possession 
• 2017: Govt appeal dismissed 
• Owners of suit property then filed execution application 

HIGHWA IN 1999

• Panchkula-Yamunanagar road via Saha was declared a national highway in 1999. 
• Stretch from Kail in Jagadhri to Kalanaur in Yamunanagar was declared ‘other district road (ODR)’ 5 months ago after NHAI built bypass. 
• Now, disputed stretch is part of the ODR that connects Jagadhri and Yamunanagar