JAMMU, Apr 28:Today in a landmark judgement a Division Bench of the J&K High Court comprising its Chief Justice, Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Rajnesh Oswal in a PIL filed by a practising Lawyer of J&K High Court Irtiza Mushtaq Salaria through Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed, has quashed the illegal / arbitrary allotment of 8 municipal flats situated at Gandhi Nagar, Jammu which had been allotted by JMC on pick and choose basis to its ex-officers and some private individuals. Apart from quashing the allotments, the DB also quashed the subsequent rent agreements executed in favour of the illegal allottees.
The DB further directed that the illegal allottees be evicted within a period of 6 months from today. With regard to 587 municipal shops, 191 municipal flats and 30 number of garages, the DB further directed the JMC to proceed in this matter in accordance with law and as per the Judgements of the Apex Court referred in this case and action be initiated within a period of 6 months and further extendable by another 6 months only.
The illegal allottees whose allotments have been quashed include Jeet Lal Gupta (IAS) former Comm. / Secy. To Govt. of J&K, Housing and Urban Development Department; R.S. Jamwal (KAS) former Joint Commissioner (Adm) JMC; Madan Mohan Khajuria, Ex-P.A. to Commissioner JMC; Narender Sharma, President PEACE (NGO); Surinder Kumar, P.S.O. to former Comm. / Secy. To Govt. of J&K, Housing and Urban Development Department; Balbir Singh (Driver, SUDA); Bharat Bhushan (Driver, JMC); Chain Singh and Kharati Lal. Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed with Advocates Rahul Raina, Supriya Chouhan, Naveed H Naik, Mohd. Zulkarnain Choudhary and Muzzaffar Ali Shah appeared for the petitioner whereas Senior AAG S.S. Nanda, Senior Advocates U.K. Jalali, R.K. Gupta, Abhinav Sharma, Advocates S.K. Anand, Adarsh Sharma, Ajay Bakshi, Sachin Gupta, Uday Bhaskar and K.K. Jandial appeared for the respondents.
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