Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to provide "litigation-free" land to families whose properties were acquired for the upcoming Jagannath Temple heritage corridor project in Puri.
Disposing of a petition filed by seven displaced families, a division bench, comprising justices Kumari Sanju Panda and S K Panigrahi, has asked the Puri administration to allot land to them as compensation within six weeks.
"It is also imperative that the state government should take some proactive steps to have an effective redressal mechanism so that the land losers, whose lives are critically affected, do not run from pillar to post for securing their rights," the court said in its order on November 2.