Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has ordered residents of a housing society near Gulab Tower to deposit Rs 79 crore with the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) by December 31 or the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will evict them from their 4,645 square metre plot.
A bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha Mayee ordered that if occupants of Snehanjali Cooperative Housing Society fail to pay up, they are to be evicted from Final Plot 65 in Thaltej Town Planning Scheme No.2 and the plot should be handed over to Nidhi Cooperative Housing Society. However, if residents of Snehanjali Society do pay up, AMC will give possession of a 4,645 square metre plot to Nidhi Society at another place, Final Plot 100/E in the TP Scheme.
AMC valued Final Plot 100/E at Rs 79 crore at the rate of Rs 1.70 lakh per metre and asked Snehanjali Society to pay for it. Snehanjali Society’s land on Final Plot 65 was valued at Rs 1.38 lakh per square metre.
The HC directions came after two rounds of litigation in a two-decade battle between the societies, Auda and AMC.
The battle began with finalization of the Thaltej TP Scheme in 1996, after which Nidhi was to get three plots from Auda. While the society got possession of two plots, the third offered to it already had construction on it. Nidhi Society finally did not get a third final plot and moved the HC in 2003.
This was followed by a petition by Snehanjali Society in 2005. The HC directed Auda to give a final plot to Nidhi Society. Snehanjali Society did not succeed in the HC or Supreme Court, which held its construction illegal.
In 2009, Auda discussed the issue with both societies and in a tripartite agreement resolved that Auda would allot Nidhi Society a vacant 4,645 square metre plot, on Final Plot 100, and Snehanjali would bear the cost, Rs 3.21 crore. This did not materialize, leading Nidhi Society to move the HC again. Snehanjali Society, which had to pay Rs 3.21 crore in 2009, will now have to cough up Rs 79 crore by the end of this month to avoid eviction.
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A bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha Mayee ordered that if occupants of Snehanjali Cooperative Housing Society fail to pay up, they are to be evicted from Final Plot 65 in Thaltej Town Planning Scheme No.2 and the plot should be handed over to Nidhi Cooperative Housing Society. However, if residents of Snehanjali Society do pay up, AMC will give possession of a 4,645 square metre plot to Nidhi Society at another place, Final Plot 100/E in the TP Scheme.
AMC valued Final Plot 100/E at Rs 79 crore at the rate of Rs 1.70 lakh per metre and asked Snehanjali Society to pay for it. Snehanjali Society’s land on Final Plot 65 was valued at Rs 1.38 lakh per square metre.
The HC directions came after two rounds of litigation in a two-decade battle between the societies, Auda and AMC.
The battle began with finalization of the Thaltej TP Scheme in 1996, after which Nidhi was to get three plots from Auda. While the society got possession of two plots, the third offered to it already had construction on it. Nidhi Society finally did not get a third final plot and moved the HC in 2003.
This was followed by a petition by Snehanjali Society in 2005. The HC directed Auda to give a final plot to Nidhi Society. Snehanjali Society did not succeed in the HC or Supreme Court, which held its construction illegal.
In 2009, Auda discussed the issue with both societies and in a tripartite agreement resolved that Auda would allot Nidhi Society a vacant 4,645 square metre plot, on Final Plot 100, and Snehanjali would bear the cost, Rs 3.21 crore. This did not materialize, leading Nidhi Society to move the HC again. Snehanjali Society, which had to pay Rs 3.21 crore in 2009, will now have to cough up Rs 79 crore by the end of this month to avoid eviction.
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