Chandigarh, Feb. 22 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has stayed a clause in Punjab government's 2021 land pooling policy that bars landowners from getting preferential or corner plots in exchange for their land acquired for an upcoming industrial sector near Aerocity and IT City in Mohali.

The sector is being developed over 488 acres across Dhurali, Chau Majra, Saini Majra, Raipur Khurd and Manouli villages.

A division bench of justice Anupinder Singh Grewal and justice Deepak Manchanda passed the order while hearing a petition filed by 111 villagers of Dhurali, whose land was acquired for Sector 101 under an award issued in January 2023. The court ordered that the operation of the clause will remain stayed till the next hearing.

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