Mr. Justice M.R. Agnihotri, President— Complainant Kanwar Sohit has invoked the original jurisdiction of this Commission by filing the present complaint alleging deficiency in service against the Haryana Urban Development Authority in the matter of delivery of vacant physical possession of the plot allotted to him and in completing the development projects and for compensation on account of escalation in the cost of construction etc.

2. According to the complainant he was allotted plot No. 2178 measuring one Kanal in Sector 7, Urban Estate, Karnal, on 17.5.1987 for a sum of Rs. 1,39,671/-. The complainant has already paid a sum of Rs. 2,16,000/-, i.e. certain amount in excess of the price of the plot, yet the vacant physical possession of the plot was not delivered to the complainant. Later on HUDA realised that the plot allotted to the complainant in fact did not exist on the map of HUDA and had not even been carved out. Therefore, in order to rectify the mistake, they allotted another plot No. 2167-B in Sector 7 in lieu of the plot already allotted but even the possession of this plot was not delivered to the complainant due to lack of demarcation and completion of necessary