The farmers, whose huge chunk of land was acquired to build Navi Mumbai, got a marginal relief from the Supreme Court after a 42 year-long legal battle as it enhanced the compensation for them to `25 per square metre.

The Maharashtra government had fixed the award for their land at `1.75 and 2.50 per square metre in 1972 after the notification for acquiring 3,86,790 square metres of land from Roadpali village was issued in February 1970.