India, April 9 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has questioned Punjab government over land usage survey in the areas of Siswan village as mandated in a judgment by the Supreme Court in 2014.

"Learned counsel for the State of Punjab as well as learned counsel for the respondent/GMADA are, therefore, directed to file fresh affidavits explaining as to why the requisite survey to ascertain the actual usage of denotified lands, could not be conducted in the last 12 long years?," the bench of justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry said while fixing the next date of hearing for April 28.

The controversy is about GMADA issuing show cause notices and registering criminal cases against those who have carried out constructions-mainly farm...