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Upload list of 8,200 allottees: HC to HUDA
Tribune News Service

Multiple allotments Besides uploading list, the HC told HUDA to get published in newspapers a list of all plots in connection with which FIRs have been registered HUDA has also been asked to file an affidavit containing list of allottees, along with their addresses, for facilitating detection of multiple allotments

Chandigarh, March 13
Information on multiple-plot allottees will soon be a click away. The Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the Haryana Urban Development Authority to upload the list of 8,200 plot allottees on its website.

Justice Daya Chaudhary also directed HUDA to get published in newspapers a list of all plots in connection with which FIRs have been registered. HUDA has also been directed to submit an affidavit containing the list of allottees, along with their addresses, for facilitating detection of multiple allotments of plots.

The directions came after the court was informed that the list already submitted by the authorities concerned did not give addresses of the allottees. Moreover, allottees’ and their fathers’ names were not spelled out clearly.

On a previous date of hearing, HUDA had produced a list of plot allottees. It showed that Haryana’s former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal’s nephew and former MLA Dura Ram had been allotted four plots in their relatives’ names under the discretionary quota in Panchkula, Hisar, Karnal and Faridabad.

The list also mentioned that the family of former President Shankar Dyal Sharma was also allotted more than one plot under the discretionary quota in HUDA-developed sectors. One such allottee had mentioned his address as “c/o of 10, Janpath Delhi,” which is the official residence of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

The latest directions came about a fortnight after the high court granted HUDA time to scan two lists of 8,255 allottees for finding out persons who were allotted more than one plot under the discretionary quota. The directions were issued after advocate Jasjit Singh Bedi, appearing for petitioner Colonel Dharam Singh Yadav, added 8,200 names to the list of 55 he had filed during the previous hearing.