Gopal Krishan Srivastava vs Land & Building Department

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2023 Supreme(Del) 1879

MINI PUSHKARNA
Gopal Krishan Srivastava – Appellant
Versus
Land & Building Department – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. N.S. Dalal, Mr. Alok Kumar, Ms. Rachana Dalal, Ms. Sweta Kadyan, Advocates, for the Petitioner.
Mr. Yeeshu Jain, Standing Counsel with Ms. Jyoti Tyagi, Ms. Manisha, Advocates, for the Respondent-1.
Ms. Manisha Agrawal Narain, Mr. Sandeep Singh Somaria, Ms. Rakshita Goyal, Advocates, for the Respondent-2.

JUDGMENT

[Physical Hearing/Hybrid Hearing]

Mini Pushkarna, J. (Oral)--By way of the present petition, the petitioner is aggrieved by the purported letter dated 09.01.2012 issued by Land and Building Department, by which the Land and Building Department had directed the DDA to keep in abeyance the recommendation for allotment of alternative plot to the petitioner. Earlier, the Land and Building Department had recommended allotment of alternative plot to the petitioner by way of Recommendation Letter dated 02.07.2004 under the Allotment of plot under the Scheme of Large Scale Acquisition, Development and Disposal of Land in Delhi, 1961.

2. The facts in brief are that the land of the father of the petitioner forming part of Khasra No. 1281/873/3/1, total land measuring 5 bighas 1 biswas situated in the Revenue estate of village Bahapur, Delhi, was acquired vide award No. 1299. Pursuant thereto, possession of the land was also taken over. The father of the petitioner applied for allotment of an alternative plot as per the rehabilitation policy of the respondent.

3. Father of the petitioner died on 22.02.2003 and after his death, the petitioner pursued the matter with the respondent. Ul

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