Times
of India: Gurgaon: Thursday, 09 October 2014.
An RTI plea
seeking details of a plot registered in the name of Robert Vadra in Gurgaon has
been stonewalled, stoking a fresh controversy days after PM Narendra Modi
slammed Haryana's 'hasty' sanction to a land deal between the Congress chief's
son-in-law and DLF that had shaken the UPA-2 regime.
The RTI
application was filed in May by Satpal Thakran, a resident of Mayfield Garden,
seeking copies of approved building plans of two plots in the township's
N-block N29 and N30 after a single building came up on both plots.
The names of
the owners of these plots were revealed by the Department of Town and Country
Planning (DTCP) in response to an earlier RTI application filed by another
Mayfield resident, Dharamvir Yadav, last year. He had sought details of all
building plans approved in the colony between 2004 and 2012. The response
listed names and details a copy is with TOI of all approved plans. It showed
that N29 was in Vadra's name while the owner of N30 was an entity called
Dharmender Art Enterprises. They had got their building plans approved for
individual plots in November 2010.
Yadav says he
filed the RTI plea because many residents in J-block were still awaiting
occupation certificates. He got to know through the response to the query that
one three-storey structure had come up on N29 and N30 despite separate building
plans being sanctioned. "This is in contravention of the Haryana
Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, because two building plans
were passed. But on the ground, there is one building straddling both plots,"
he says, adding, "How can this happen without DTCP's permission?"
Thakran,
whose RTI query got stonewalled, followed up on this strand. A J-block
resident, he asked in his RTI application for copies of the approved building
plans for both plots, the approved building plan for a single structure if a
merger had been okayed a copy of the conveyance deed and a copy of the DTCP's
approval for construction.
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