‘Totally illegal’: Owner of Gurgaon’s French Farms says industrial park blocked main gate with unlawful wall | Delhi News
An 83-year-old Frenchman who has been running a popular organic farm in Gurgaon district for more than three decades has alleged that an industrial park and warehousing company has erected an illegal cement wall along one side of his three-acre property, entirely blocking its main gate and cutting off all access through it. Roger Langbour, a retired French Air Force officer who has run French Farms with his wife Anita Sinha Langbour since purchasing the land in 1994, has alleged that the wall came up suddenly on March 8, and is intended to force him to sell the property. Langbour has alleged sustained harassment from the warehousing company, Horizon Industrial Parks, for the past three years. He has taken up the matter with the local administration, and alleges that police and village officials have not acted effectively on his complaints. “They (the company) want to take my land, it is totally illegal. They want to force me to sell, but I won’t [sell] at any price [to them],” Langbour told The Indian Express. However, he …
