Housing – Residential colony – Builder purchased approx.235 acres of land in Faridabad, Haryana for establishing a residential colony – In view of the bilateral agreement with the Director, Town and Country Planning, the Builder was required to allot plots in the various categories – Allottees made deposits; however, the Builder/Colonizer did not adhere to the terms and conditions of the allotment agreement – In 1996, allottees filed writ petitions before this Court, writ petition disposed of in 2019 – After the disposal of the writ petition, the Single Member Special Committee appointed in 2016 continued with its exercise of resolving the issues and finally submitted its report in 2023, report was accepted – However, a number of applications had come up by allottees of different categories praying for redressal of their grievances who could not approach the Special Committee in time – On request, Special Committee, agreed to continue to deal with further applications from the defaulters, those already filed or those that may be filed – Pending applications were examined by the amicus curiae as to whether those applications were required to be dealt with by this Court or the Special Committee – Note submitted – Applications that needed to be examined and disposed of by the Special Committee, referred to the Special Committee – Second category of applications consisted of those applications which alleged some grievances before the Special Committee or which need to be adjudicated upon by this Court:
Held: Applications examined in detail, appropriate orders issued – Directions issued to State of Haryana to demarcate plots and public facilities in a feasible way to ensure that maximum number of allottees can be accommodated. [Paras 11-43]
As published in the Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court of India. Headnotes prepared by: Divya Pandey. Text from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open data set (Dattam Labs), CC BY 4.0.
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