Feb 18, 2025 09:08 AM IST
The plea seeks declaration of extra demand notices of July 2023 and January 2025 as unlawful and arbitrary. As per the petition, the plot holders are being requested to collectively pay ₹288 crore extra on the precise enhancement payment of ₹300 crore, as GMADA did not provoke the proceedings in 2013.
The Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket has sought response from the Higher Mohali Improvement Authority (GMADA) on a plea from residents of Sectors 76 to 80 in Mohali opposing transfer to levy enhancement payment on 30,000 odd plot holders.
The Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket has sought response from the Higher Mohali Improvement Authority (GMADA) on a plea from residents of Sectors 76 to 80 in Mohali opposing transfer to levy enhancement payment on 30,000 odd plot holders. (Getty Pictures/iStockphoto/ Representational picture)
The excessive court docket bench of justice Sureshwar Thakur and justice Vikas Suri has sought response by March 18.
The plea seeks declaration of extra demand notices of July 2023 and January 2025 as unlawful and arbitrary. As per the petition, the plot holders are being requested to collectively pay ₹288 crore extra on the precise enhancement payment of ₹300 crore, as GMADA did not provoke the proceedings in 2013.
In an earlier spherical of litigation in October 2024, the excessive court docket had given six weeks to GMADA to look into the demand of residents who’re arguing that extra payment can’t be levied by GMADA. In December, GMADA had rejected plot holders’ demand.
As per the plea, the authority is passing on the burden of a 10-year-old delay onto the residents. GMADA was to get well the quantity in 2013 when the quantity was ₹300 crore, however now the authority has added the curiosity of ₹288 crore, the plea stated, demanding that notices slapped on the plot house owners be quashed.
GMADA had began issuing notices in Might 2023, asking plot holders to pay the quantity calculated at ₹2,645.50 per sq. yard or face motion.
“The impugned demand is apparently erroneous and unsustainable on multiple grounds. But owing to inaction at the end of the respondent authorities, rights/interests of the petitioners are gravely impaired and with each passing day, the said liability is multiplying,” the plea stated.
The plot house owners had additionally alleged that GMADA had included 80 acres of land, located in Sectors 85 and 89, inside the boundaries of Sectors 76 to 80, including an additional monetary burden on the residents, which was additionally unlawful.