( 1 ) APPLICATION for impleadment is dismissed.

( 2 ) LEAVE granted in the special leave petition.

( 3 ) THE City of beauty, Chandigarh, carefully architectured and meticulosuly executed as a modal city in India by famous architect, Shri Le. Corbursier when it was getting desideration compounded by disfiguration of beauty and elegance, statutory regulations stepped in to stamp out erosion and to restore its natural environment. These cases are instances of blatent misusage of the buildings or plots in the planned structures

( 4 ) THIS appeal by special leave arises from the order of the Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court made on 27/01/1993 in C. W. P. No. 14183/92 upholding the order of the Estate Officer who refused to condone the delay in making application under Rule 11-D of the Chandigarh (Sale of Sites and Buildings) (Amendment) Rules, 1979 (for short. the "rules" ).

( 5 ) THE writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution was filed by the petitioner challenging the validity of Section 8a of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952 (Punjab Act of 1952) (for short, the "act" ).

( 6 ) THE facts are long and tendentious. Suffice it to state