Amitabh's land allotment hearing defers indefinetly
Lucknow, July 23: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court today deferred the hearing of the land allotment case of megastar Amitabh Bachchan indefinetly.
The court proceedings could not be held as Justice S N Srivastava was on leave. No date has been fixed for the next hearing.
Faizabad additional commissioner Vidhya Sagar Prasad earlier had quashed the allotment of land to Mr Bachchan in Barabanki district.
Later, Mr Bachchan had filed a petition challenging the order.
On June 1, a Faizabad court had ruled that the actor was anything but a farmer.
He had got himself certified as a farmer by forgery, according to the court in Uttar Pradesh so that he could hold on to the 24-acre plot he had bought near Lonavla in Pune in the mid-1990s.
Last year, the actor showed the Pune district authorities a certificate from the then Barabanki district magistrate, Ramashankar Sahu, saying he was a farmer because he owned farmland in the district.
But the Faizabad additional commissioner (administration), who has judicial powers in land disputes, ruled that the 1993 Barabanki land transfer in Mr Bachchan's name was illegal.
Vidya Sagar Prasad also said the DM's certificate had been obtained with forged land revenue documents.
UNI