The Allahabad high court has quashed acquisition of land in yet another village of Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh on May 25. 
 
 A division bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Aditya Nath Mittal while asking the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) to 'return the land' in Surajpur village under Dadri Pargana of the district to the petitioners, also ruled that they shall be 'entitled to receive Rs 25,000 each as costs of litigation'. 
 
 The court quashed the notifications whereby a total of 6.93 hectares (about 17 acres) of land had been acquired during the previous Samajwadi Party government in the state for industrial development.
 
 The order was passed on two writ petitions filed by Bunda and other residents of Surajpur and by a company Saraswati Builders which had purchased land in the village in 1989 and carried out substantial construction work there.
 The petitioners altogether owned nearly 3 hectares (7.5 acres) of the acquired land.