Free
Press Journal: New Delhi: Friday, September 28, 2018.
The
Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal of a Mumbai developer to block
information sought from Greater Mumbai Corporation under the Right to
Information Act (RTI) on sanctioned plans of his construction in Mumbai. It
dubbed the appeal and the court cases as a “legal misadventure” and imposed the
cost of Rs 2.5 lakh payable to Nusli Wadia, an administrator of the estate of
late E F Dinshaw comprising three plots in Malad.
After
failing to block the information in the High Court, developers Ferani Hotels
Private Limited had moved the Supreme Court to prevent information sought by
Wadia from Greater Mumbai Corporation, stressing that it was though hardly the
actual expenses. The Bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and Sanjay Kishan Kaul
held that even otherwise the developer should have mandatorily displayed the
sanctioned plans as required under RERA (Real Estate (Regulation and
Development) Act, 2016).
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