Court Orders
The Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed Rs 10 lakh as a cost on the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) and directed it to hand over the 156 hectares of land in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh to the villagers and farmers. The Court upheld the Allahabad High Court order quashing the acquisition of the [...] Continue Reading »
The hoteliers were aggrieved by Mayawati government’s decision to cancel the allotment of land after allegations of the land worth crores being given away cheap. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the allotment of land but asked them to pay almost triple the original price if they still wanted to retain the allotted land. A [...] Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down the plea of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority and builders, including Supertech and Amrapalli, to stay the May 12 Allahabad high court order that quashed the authority’s notification, acquiring 156.3 hectares land in the village. The authority bought the land from farmers at a cheap price for [...] Continue Reading »
An unmarried Hindu woman is entitled to equal share in ancestral or coparcenery property along with other male members under the amended Hindu Succession Act, the Supreme Court has held. Coparcenary refers to equal inheritance which was restricted only to male members of the Hindu Undivided Family but after succesive amendments several states have chosen [...] Continue Reading »
Acquiring property in the name of the husband by his wife would be Benami no more. The government to amend the Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act The government plans to amend the Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act. Under the existing law, the law defines a benami transaction as a deal in which a property is transferred to [...] Continue Reading »
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said the government should construct the shelter home for destitute pregnant women in the city. The bench asked counsel Najmi Waziri to inform the government to construct the third shelter-home for destitute pregnant and lactating women to check child deliveries on footpaths. The bench [...] Continue Reading »
If a tenant has paid the rent regularly according to the agreement, landlord cannot evict the tenant for at least five years. If present and prevalent market rent assessed and fixed between the parties is paid by the tenant, then the landlord shall not be entitled to take any action for his eviction against such [...] Continue Reading »
Housing demand falls by 20 per cent following a court order directing return of land to the original owners. The Allahabad High Court has denotified more than 150 hectares of land acquired for residential development by the Greater Noida Authority and directed the entire land to be returns to their owners. Following the court order, [...] Continue Reading »
Builder to pay compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to two buyers for failing to hand over flats booked by them. Mumbai district consumer forum held that failure on part of the builder, Sharma Realty Pvt. Ltd., to execute the Agreement for Sale was deficiency in service and ordered to pay compensation to two buyers. [...] Continue Reading »
The High Court issued interim orders on Monday staying the property tax hike by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). The High Court division bench comprised of Justice V.V.S. Rao and Justice Ramesh Ranganath issued interim orders on Monday staying the property tax hike by the GVMC and ordered that the hike should not be [...] Continue Reading »
