Maintain status quo on Patanjali land: HC

Allahabad: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday directed authorities in Noida not to “make any development or changes” on 4,500 acres of land allotted for a food park to be set up by yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yog Sansthan. A division bench of justices Tarun Agarwala and Ashok Kumar ordered that status quo be maintained on the tract of land till Tuesday, the next date of hearing in the matter. The court also directed the district magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar and the Yamuna Industrial Development Authority to file their counter affidavits on the petition of Noida resident Asaf Khan who moved the court alleging that 200 bighas of land allotted to him on a 30-year lease are included in the land given to the Sansthan.