India, Feb. 25 -- The Bombay high court has come to the rescue of a family whose land was taken over for the construction of the Koyna dam in Satara in 1960 but weren't allotted alternate plots as promised for their rehabilitation.

After noting that the allotment of 1.6 hectares of land in Panvel in November 2017 was cancelled without citing any cogent reasons, a division bench of justices MS Sonak and Jitendra Jain on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to allot alternate plots in six months to the two sons and two daughters of Waman Ganpatrao Kadam. The siblings currently reside in Koyna Velhi, a camp of families displaced due to the dam construction in the Satara district.

The bench warned that the secretary of the revenue dep...