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2026 Supreme(HP) 393

IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA
JYOTSNA REWAL DUA
Bhavik Jain – Appellant
Versus
State of H.P. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. Ajay Vaidya, Advocate.
For the Respondents:Ms. Seema Sharma, Deputy Advocate General, Mr. Raman Ravi Verma, Advocate.

JUDGMENT :

Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J.

Petitioners have invoked jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for assailing an order passed by the Himachal Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA)-respondent No.2 on 12.12.2025.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners contends that provisions of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (in short ‘the Act’) have been wrongly applied to the case of the petitioners. The same are not applicable to them as the land in question falls in a deemed planning area and is not part of notified planning area under the Himachal Pradesh Town & Country Planning Act; Number of plots sold by the petitioners does not exceed 8 and the total land development by the petitioners does not exceed 2500 square meters.

3. It is not in dispute and is also apparent from the perusal of the impugned order passed by RERA that objections to the applicability of the Act raised herein were also urged before the said authority. RERA considered these objections of facts and law. The issues were deliberated upon and thereafter the impugned order was passed on 12.12.2025, holding the petitioners to have contravened Section 3 of the RERA Act by deve






























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