THE SUPREME Court has re-cently set aside the Punjab and t Haryana High Court’s direction to municipal authorities to act against alleged building law vi-colators in Gurgaon’s DLF City phases 1 to 5, while asking it to, take a fresh look at the cases
In its October 28 order, a bench of Justice JK Mahesh-wari and Justice Vijay Bishnoi said,…unauthorised or illegal construction commercial use efresidential property contrary 40 the norms, rules and regula-tlons cannot be protected. But the determination of such fact ought to be made by the R INDER orities affordingd ity to the owusanroccuplers.
The February 13 HC order came on petitions filed by DLF City Residents Welfare Associ-ation and others seeking direc-tions to municipal authorities to take action in furtherance of “the “Action Taken Reports passed by… District Town Planner (Enforcement), which after taking note of the unautherised construction in areas of DLF City, Gurugram… inter alia… recommended that the Occupation Certificates issued (to) persons/owners who had Praised unauthorised construction be cancelled and further.criminal caseste legistered”. sale sought take action, includ-ing the removal/demolition of the illegal and unauthorised construction
Satinder Duggal
