The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) withdrew its order on the compensation given by the Noida Authority in Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh and said that compensation was obtained from fraud and it should be removed from the records due to being invalid.
According to the report of the Bar and Bench, the Supreme Court said, ‘It is important to note that ,Fraud proves everything, The principle of the principle is not limited to the investigation of the decisions given by the lower courts, but if such a case comes before us, it may also include highlighting the decisions of this court.
Justice Suryakant, Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan and Justice Dipankar Dutta were hearing the bench case. The bench said that the dispute over the ownership of the land was ruled, which was bought by three persons Reddy Veerana, Vishnu Vardhan and T Sudhakar in 1997 and was acquired by Noida Authority in 2005 and is now part of the Commercial Center of Noida in Sector 18.
It was alleged that Veerana had fraudulently claimed the only ownership of the land in several actions in front of various judicial forums from civil courts to the High Court and the Supreme Court in 2022, when the Supreme Court passed an order to give the increased compensation to Veerana.
Veerana is accused of removing Vardhan and Sudhakar from fraud and grabbed the compensation amount. Vishnu Vardhan opposed Veerana’s claim and requested the Supreme Court to withdraw the order of May 2022.
Justice Dipankar Dutta wrote the decision of the bench. He said that many decisions of this court on fraud lead to conclusion that fraud and justice cannot live together.
The order said, ‘Even though Vishnu has not applied for review – as a logical result of the above discussions – the decision of Reddy Veerana (decision of 2022) was also received by cheating on behalf of Reddy, it should also be erased from records as it is invalid.’
The bench also quashed the Allahabad High Court’s decision on October 28, 2021, in which Veerana was accepted as the only owner of the property and the compensation was increased from Rs 152.04 per square meter to Rs 1,10,000 per square meter and said that the fraud has corrupted the entire action.
The Supreme Court sent the case back to the High Court and directed that the other two owners of the land Vishnu Vardhan and T Sudhakar should be made as an additional defendants.