JUDGMENT :

(Dharmesh Sharma, J.)

1. The petitioner is invoking the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, 1950, seeking issuance of an appropriate writ, order or direction, thereby declaring that the act of the respondent/DDA,[Delhi Development Authority] in demanding current cost of the subject property from the petitioner as being arbitrary, illegal or void and for being contrary to the DDA’s policy.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the father of the petitioner, namely, Late Shri Sujan Singh applied for allotment of a plot of land measuring 60 sq. mtrs. in ‘Rohini MIG Scheme’ on 09.03.1981 vide Application No. 47666, making a deposit vide FDR No. 06372, Priority No. 02128 for a sum of Rs.5,000/- vide Receipt No. 7/72. It is the case of the petitioner that his father was allotted a plot bearing No. 92, Pocket 21, Sector - 24, Rohini, Delhi on 27.03.1991. However, the demand-cum-allotment letter dated 02.11.1993 was issued to an old address of the father of the petitioner in the records of the DDA, despite the fact that his father, after selling his old property No. 10255-56, situated in Gali Millwali, Ward No. XII, Mohalla Nawab Gan