The land, measuring 24 acres and worth crores of rupees, was allotted to 20 builders between 2008 and 2009 in Sectors 58-63 and Sectors 65-67 of Gurgaon by the department of consolidation and holdings allegedly in violation of the Consolidation Act.
With these orders the land would be returned to the panchayats. Much of the land in question is in Gawal Pahari, Behrampur area of Gurgaon.
A senior Haryana IAS officer who is at present Director, department of consolidation and holdings, Ashok Khemka, had also written a letter to the Haryana government alleging that his predecessors had allotted the land in favour of builders without any jurisdiction and in violation of the relevant statute.
The orders were passed by a division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Jasbir Singh while allowing a bunch of petitions filed by Khusi Ram and others.
The petitioners in this case had sought directions to quash the orders passed by the Director, department of consolidation and holdings, Haryana, transferring land in favour of these realtors.
The land was allotted in favour of some private realtors by the department of consolidation and holdings from 2008 to 2009, while the consolidation proceedings of the land in question were completed 40 to 45 years ago.
In his letter, written on July 25, just seven days after taking the charge of the department, Khemka had also alleged that his predecessors, S C Goel and Anil Kumar (both IAS), appear to have passed several orders under the Consolidation Act in gross abuse of position by them.
While holding that "involvement of higher-ups cannot be ruled out", Khemka had requested the government to probe such transfers of land by an independent agency like CBI to probe the transfer of such land. Giving reasons for writing the letter, Khemka had expressed that "He was not able to reconcile himself to such gross abuse of authority."
When asked by TOI, deputy commissioner P C Meena said the district administration would comply with the court orders.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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will any key residential projects likely to get impacted, like Pioneer Park, etc.
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