Legal
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had asked the urban development authority to give the name of people that were allegedly granted multiple plots. As per the HUDA record, almost 8,000 people have multiple plots under the various categories. Justice Daya Chaudhary also advised HUDA authorities to declare the names of people who had taken [...] Continue Reading »
The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has ordered to scrap the user development fee at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here. GMR Hyderabad International Airport is considering challenging the order as this will have a negative impact on the company’s financials, said Siddharth Kapur, CFO, GMR Infrastructure’s airport business. Kapur said on the sidelines of India [...] Continue Reading »
Illegal mining renewal in Tauru and Nuh has started ringing alarm bells in the region. Environment activists blamed the state government and local administration on Monday, for their disappointment to act inspite of Supreme Court orders of ban on such activities and pressurized them to take the case to the apex court or the National [...] Continue Reading »
In order to become owners of the land on which the buildings are constructed, residents are claiming to get deemed transportation as alleged by a senior civic official. Supreme Court (SC) has given four weeks to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to consider the residents’ plea for regularisation for the relief of the unauthorised flats [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay high court, on Tuesday asked BMC to clarify its view on the redevelopment of common buildings coming under a proposed heritage precinct. Hearing a petition by Chembur Citizens’ Forum, representing approximately 500 buildings opposing their heritage status, was a bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M S Sanklecha. As per the petition, [...] Continue Reading »
On Tuesday, the city government and municipal bodies were stopped by High Court from changing the land use of any road in Delhi without its approval. Commenting on the Court’s order, Justice Manmohan questioned the Government and the three Municipal Corporations to seek a judicial order in a pending petition in the HC on this [...] Continue Reading »
Farmers, in parts of Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, protested against land acquisition by Maruti. The villagers claim that the land was taken away from them at a throwaway price and given to Maruti. This is the second major instance where farmers are protesting against the State Government’s attempts to acquire agricultural land for industries. The farmers [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka State Cabinet recently took a decision to amend relevant Sections of Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964, and Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961, for the purpose. As per the sources the government suggested to take up the process of granting permission to purchase agricultural land by industrialists and simultaneously clearing land conversion applications to lessen [...] Continue Reading »
Allegations of anti-competitive practices against realty firm Ambience and the Haryana government on the development of a residential project in the city have been rejected by fair trade watchdog. The Competition Commission of India disposed of all three complaints against Ambience and the government filed by Moran Plantation, Mili Marketing and Parasramka Holdings, in an [...] Continue Reading »
Ignoring High Court’s orders, Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has not destroyed the encroachment at Asaram’s ashram. The report submitted on 27 January, says that that the school premises, hostel and a hall are constructed illegally on public land. A senior official of JDA, says, “Recently, the ashram authority had written a letter to JDA asking [...] Continue Reading »
