Madras High Court
Some twenty-five buildings were sealed by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) in Chennai recently. The sealing came after the Madras high court ordered for demolition as they are illegal structures. These twenty-five buildings are located in T-Nagar and were among the 64 illegal structures which were identified in 2007 for pull-down. It should be [...] Continue Reading »
In Chennai a land at Arumbakkam was sold to a third party without the knowledge of the land owner and also bank loan was sanctioned to this illegal property dealing. The Madras high court directed the city police officials to take up the case seriously and take immediate action on the property dealers. This illegal property [...] Continue Reading »
The Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam of Madras high court (MHC), who had directed the authorities to file individual affidavits on illegal construction by November 1st, 2011 reported saying that the status report filed recently was nothing but an eyewash in their point of view. The Chennai city civic authorities [...] Continue Reading »
The Madras High Court levied Infrastructure and Development (ID) charges on the builders and the promoters on behalf of managing the water and sewerage amenities. Justice D Murugesan and Justice KK Sasidharan short listed nearly 100 builders against the this payment charges. The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority and the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) [...] Continue Reading »
A court-appointed monitoring committee which met on July 15 had recommended disconnection of amenities and cancellation of trade licenses in Chennai. It decided to look into the possibilities of sealing unauthorized portions to take up demolition. It also recommended the formation of a special task force with different local body officials to take action against [...] Continue Reading »
Madras high court division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice D. Hariparanthaman directed the state government not to allow any person to draw and sell the groundwater. Pointing out that the government has not taken any steps to notify the coming into force of the Tamil Nadu Groundwater Development and Management Act, 2003,division [...] Continue Reading »
The Madras High Court has directed the Chennai Corporation to take appropriate action within four weeks against a building owner for running a service apartment without drainage and sewage connections. A private firm building which is being used as a service apartment does not have sewage and drainage connection, so the owner clears the sewage [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is asked to give details of unauthorized residential flats constructed in the city and the action taken by the agency against such constructions. The Madras High Court has directed the CMDA to file an affidavit giving the details. The affidavit should be filed by November 12. The matter has [...] Continue Reading »
