Court Orders
Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim stay to senior bureaucrat T C Benjamin, on an order directing the Maharashtra Anti- Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate accusations against him in an alleged real estate scam. The ACB registered an FIR against Benjamin, the Principal Secretary of the State Urban Development Department, and developer Niranjan Hiranandani, [...] Continue Reading »
CBI is presently concentrating on ‘benami‘ owners of flats and it claimed that a senior politician had involved in those transactions. According to sources, an intense investigation has been carried on by CBI with regard to the case and certain details have been shared with the Enforcement Directorate to check the money trace into the [...] Continue Reading »
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet against 13 accused people in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, including the former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Ashok Chavan, the former MLC, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, senior retired Army officials and bureaucrats and a former employee of the Defence Ministry. Charge sheet has also been filed against senior bureaucrats [...] Continue Reading »
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) will be inquiring Niranjan Hiranandani, the co-founder of Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group, with regard to a criminal complaint case filed against him in connection with suspected irregularities in a housing project. A special court has directed the ACB, while hearing the complaint filed by activist Santosh Daundkar against Hiranandani, for allegedly cheating [...] Continue Reading »
The Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA) had auctioned 21 plots in the year 2001, out of the land which was reserved for construction of a community centre. The auction was challenged in the High Court by the then president of the Sri Balaji Park Residents Welfare Association. The court called the act of VUDA as [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has violated the Karnataka High Court’s order by granting permission to construct nine commercial complexes in Malleswaram. An interim order passed in January, HC said, it will not be giving permission to reconstruct or redevelop residential areas near private homes in areas like Jayanagar, Malleswaram, Richmond Town and Vasanthnagar. [...] Continue Reading »
A builder has been directed to pay for the execution of conveyance, agreement and registration for a 1.000-sq-ft flat for not handing over to a buyer seven years after the full payment of Rs 22 lakh was made. The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission also told the builder to hand over the flat on [...] Continue Reading »
Shravan Gupta, managing director (MD) of Emaar MGF, one of the India’s leading real estate developers, has moved a ‘recall’ of the non-bailable arrest warrant petition in the CBI court as the court issued a lookout notice to him. The petition states that Gupta, one of the accused in the Emaar case, is unable to [...] Continue Reading »
The land disputes in the prime area of Banjara Hills remain unresolved from decades, between government and private parties that claim to be its owners. Up to 140 acres of vacant land in different parts of Banjara Hills worth as much as 3,000 crores is under litigation presently. Claimants of these properties are descendents of [...] Continue Reading »
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) told the Supreme Court that the Sahara firm had no right to mobilise Rs.27,000 crore from 30 million investors through debentures without adhering to the regulatory regime. The firm raised money without complying with the regulatory regime of the stock market and listing on the bourses, said [...] Continue Reading »
