NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Wednesday said the 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 and others at helm of the authority for the past 10-15 years.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Ujjal Bhuyan and N Kotiswar Singh also gave the Special Investigation Team (SIT) two more months to complete the investigation.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for NOIDA, said he wants to file an affidavit to put forward the view of the authority in the matter.

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

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