Taj petitioner gets 2 plots for family from Mulayam govt
One day before the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government in Uttar Pradesh hiked the prices of prime land in Ghaziabad and Noida, it allotted two plots on an out-of-turn basis to the mother and sister of Ajay Agarwal. Agarwal is a Supreme Court lawyer who had filed the PIL in the Taj Corridor case in the apex court.
On March 31, Housing Commissioner Neeraj Kumar Gupta issued the allotment letters of two HIG plots measuring 160 square metres each, one in the name of Ajay Agarwal’s mother Uma Agarwal, and the other, in the name of his sister Anamika Agarwal. Both plots are in Sector 10 A, Vasundhara Enclave, in Ghaziabad.
Both allottees were not registered with the Housing Board which had advertised and invited applications from buyers last December.
When contacted by The Indian Express, Additional Commissioner (Housing) Chob Singh Verma confirmed this: ‘‘About 3,500 people have registered for the 175 plots in Sector 10 A. They are yet to be allotted the plots as we are still negotiating with Tata Consultancy Service to hold a computerised draw of lots to select the allottees.’’
Ajay Agarwal’s mother and sister had not even applied for the plots through the advertisements. But they were allotted two Sector 10 A plots on an out-of-turn basis. The allotments were made under Section 48 of the UP Housing Development Board Act, 1965, which entitles the Housing Commissioner to allot plots, keeping the ‘‘interest’’ of the Housing Board and the allottee in mind.
Source: indianexpress