The Mohali urban estate has become litigation-free following the dismissal of a bunch of petitions challenging the land acquisition for Sector 76-80 here.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dismissing the 56 decade-old civil writ petitions pertaining to 102 acres of land scattered all across 1,264 acres acquired for developing five new Sectors in Mohali has not only brought to an end all the pending litigations on land acquisitions but also paved the way for further development, which was stalled due to the litigations, in Mohali urban estate.
The Supreme Court had in October 2010 already dismissed two separate over six-year-old civil appeals challenging the land acquisition for Knowledge City in Sector 81, Mohali.
With this, 225 of the total of 3,931 plots, which could not be allotted due to the litigation will soon be given to the allottees while the oustees will get almost 700 plots, which they were awaiting ever since their land was acquired in 2001. Of the total carved out 4,446 plots, 980 were stuck under litigation area.
Not only the allotment of plots but the development works falling in the disputed area too were lying incomplete over the years.
The Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) had acquired over 1,200 acres to develop urban estate in Sectors 76-80 in 2001.
While the owners of almost 1,100 acquired acres had offered their land holdings after accepting the monetary compensation, the owners of over 100 acres had challenged their land acquisition and rejected the monetary compensation, which they had called “meagre”.
With the courts restraining any activity on the disputed land spread across almost all the sectors, the allottees and oustees were awaiting allotments even 10 years after receiving the letters of intent.
PUDA had collected 10 per cent of the cost price of each plot from the letter of intent holders while crores of rupees have so far been spent on the development of these sectors.
The letter of intent holders were, however, allowed to sell the letters and over the years they had changed many hands.
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