New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by it to probe higher payment of compensation to farmers for their land allegedly in connivance and collusion of officials from NOIDA must also investigate the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and others for the past 10-15 years.

A bench of the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant and Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and N. Kotiswar Singh granted the SIT two more months to complete the investigation.

The apex court said that farmers who have been given higher payments will not be penalised, and no coercive action will be taken against them.

The bench said it had already clarified in its earlier orders that the probe is not to harass farmers but...