Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Friday sought replies from the state government, Centre, Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City Company and private companies on five PILs challenging various land allotments. The division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala has fixed the next hearing in June 2013.
All the petitions, heard separately, challenge the land allotment to private companies, claiming arbitrariness resulting in loss to exchequer. Ghanshyam Patel has challenged allotment of 3,50,000 square meters of land to Essar Steel at Hazira in Surat district, claiming there was no prior notice to public, and procedures were thrown to the wind.
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12:58 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Bhubaneswar: With the CAG slamming the Odisha government over allotment of valuable land in Bhubaneswar city, the Congress today held Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik responsible for flouting of law in the process and demanded an independent probe into the matter by an independent agency like CBI. "The CAG report shows that the chief minister is solely responsible for allotment of valuable land by violating the law and misusing power. There...
03:59 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Secretary of Adarsh Society RC Thakur among other accused had allegedly misled the Maharashtra government in 2002 in allotting a plot for the construction of the highrise, claiming that the local defence authorities had given the go-ahead. This has been revealed by the CBI in its over 10,000-page chargesheet filed on July 4 against 13 accused in the case. The special CBI judge will start taking cognisance of the...
02:50 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's deposition before the judicial commission probing the Adarsh scam will continue on Monday. On Saturday, he blamed his predecessor Vilasrao Deshmukh for the controversial land allotment. Chavan said the allotment of land in Mumbai city is governed by the Government Resolution of 1999 and Directions from the Chief Minister's Office, both of which clearly state that for allotment of land in Mumbai city,...
08:26 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Bangalore: Lokayukta police on Thursday filed an FIR against former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani and others in connection with a private complaint charging them of illegally cancelling an allotment of land with fabricated documents. Nirnani is the first accused and Yeddyurappa the second accused. Besides them, VP Baligar, former Principal Secretary, Industries Department, Shivaswamy, former Managing Director Karnataka Udyoga Mitra (KUM) and Gangadharaiah, Deputy Director, KUM...
12:46 AM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the allotment of 20 acres of panchayat land in Jhajjar district to Ghai's firm Mukta Arts and film school Whistling woods. Ghai was planning to set up a film institute on the plot. But his plans ran into trouble when villagers from Badhsa filed a PIL challenging the allotment. Ghai suffered a...
11:56 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: Union Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday declined to comment on the latest CAG report which is said to have indicted him over a land allotment in Mumbai. "I would not like to comment on a leaked report. Let the government table it in the legislature, then I will react," Deshmukh told from his hometown Latur, over phone. The CAG report, yet to be tabled in the...
03:38 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Owner of Whistling Woods and filmmaker Subhash Ghai speaks on HC order to surrender land allotted to him. ...
05:38 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat came out strongly against the proposed FIR against former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan saying that the case was politically motivated. "This is a politically motivated case. Achuthanandan has been in the forefront of the campaign against the corruption in the previous UDF regime, which is why this is happening," he said. "We will fight this case legally and politically," he added. The Vigilance...
11:07 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday promised a probe after a Cobrapost-IBN investigation showed how bureaucrats and judges were allotted flats under his ministers' discretionary quota. This came hours after former Orissa urban development minister K V Singhdeo said that he was ready to face probe in the land allotment controversy. An investigation by Cobrapost and IBN Network had revealed how former and sitting judges of Orissa, police...
07:23 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Former and sitting judges of Orissa, police officers and bureaucrats have received flats under ministers' quota. ...
09:36 PM, Nov 02, 2011
On this episode we look at how Noida land scam unfolded and affected the buyers. ...
12:15 AM, Aug 07, 2011
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday ruled out a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in the allotment of land to family members of ruling alliance leaders, as demanded by the opposition. "After chief secretary's report, there is no necessity for a CBI probe," he said. In his probe report submitted last week, Chief Secretary Anup Mukherjee has made it clear that no rules have been violated in...
10:34 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Lucknow: Alleging a Rs 40,000-crore scam in land allotment in Noida, the BJP on Saturday demanded that the Supreme Court appoint a special team to probe "deals" between Uttar Pradesh government and private builders. "Land worth Rs 60,000 crore was allotted at throwaway prices to handpicked builders for Rs 19,490 crore in the last one year," BJP national secretary Kirit Somaiya alleged and demanded that all deals finalised in 2010-11...
05:16 PM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the allotment of land to cricketer Sourav Ganguly by West Bengal government in Kolkata saying it was "unreasonable and arbitrary" and asked him to surrender the plot in two weeks. The bench, also comprising Justice G S Singhvi, set aside the allotment of 63.04 'katha' land given to the former India captain by the Left Front government in the year 2000 in...
07:21 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has quashed the land allotment by the 2004 Uma Bharti government in Madhya Pradesh to a trust run by late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kushabhau Thakre. The court has also directed the commissioner of town planning to take possession of the 20 acres land and directed the Madhya Pradesh government to refund the paid amount to the trust. Senior BJP leaders LK Advani and Venkaiah...
11:14 AM, Apr 06, 2011
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday admitted that he had committed a "mistake" by alloting land to his sons but appeared defiant about the act being "immoral or illegal". "If land is there you can offer it to anybody. My mistake is I allotted land to my son. If court takes a decision, let them take back the land," Yeddyurappa said. However, Yeddyurappa - who virtually...
11:43 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Union minister PK Bansal wants an inquiry into the projects in Punjab. ...
10:26 PM, Oct 23, 2009
FIR lodged against Rajasthan Chief Minister, four others in Jaipur. ...
09:42 PM, May 09, 2009
BJP's Yogendra Singh Tanwar had filed a complaint against Chawla. ...
12:32 AM, Feb 10, 2009
