“However, the court has said that the affected families could move a representation before the administration seeking compensation for whatever damage may have been caused to their agricultural land in the process of preparing the ground for the rally,” he said.
According to Naqvi, the affected families had been granted about four acres of land by the state government way back in the 1960s and they were miffed over administration's failure to seek their approval before allowing use of their land and its refusal to pay heed when they raised objections.
“Our objection was not to the rally, per se, but to the invidious manner in which the use of private land was allowed by the Kanpur administration without addressing the concerns of its owners,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
