Prem Ghai vs District Magistrate North

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2021 Supreme(Del) 1038

SANJEEV SACHDEVA
Prem Ghai – Appellant
Versus
District Magistrate North – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. Sunil Dahiya, Advocate, for the Petitioner; Mr. Yeeshu Jain, Standing Counsel with Ms. Jyoti Tyagi, Advocate, for the Respondent

JUDGMENT

Sanjeev Sachdeva, J.:-- (Oral)

1. The hearing was conducted through video conferencing.

2. Petitioner impugns order dated 28.10.2020 whereby the application of the petitioner dated 15.01.2004 for allotment of an alternative plot in lieu of his land acquired in village Shahbad Daulatpur, Delhi has been rejected.

3. With the consent of parties, the petition is taken up hearing today.

4. The impugned order dated 28.10.2020 records that two notices were issued to the petitioner but petitioner failed to submit the requisite documents.

5. The case of the petitioner is that petitioner never received the said notices or became aware of any notice published in the newspaper as their predecessor-in-interest i.e. their father had expired in the year 2009.

6. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are residents of Jalandhar, Punjab and as such were never aware of the requirement of furnishing any further documents to the respondents.

7. Learned counsel for the petitioner relies on a judgment dated 01.10.2018 in W.P(C)11557/2017 titled Rishi Pal vs. Land & Building Department wherein in similar circumstances the matter has been remitted to the respondents to recons

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