Hindustan Times: Gurugram: Wednesday,
September 11, 2019.
A response to an RTI query
filed by a city-based activist has revealed that the Haryana Shahari Vikas
Pradhikaran’s (HSVP) screening committee allegedly allowed transfer of a
fraudulently obtained reserved category plot at Sector 57 Gurugram in 2017.
The alleged action amounts to
contempt of the Punjab and Haryana High Court which in 2014, after receiving
complaints of frauds in allotment of reserved category plots in various HSVP
sectors in the state, had appointed a screening committee for scrutiny of all
such allotments banning sale or transfer of any such plot.
The screening committee
consists of an estate officer, a chief account officer, an accounts officer and
a district attorney.
The RTI reply, obtained in
April this year, revealed that a Sector 23-A resident allegedly obtained a plot
at Sector 23-A first in 2001 under the general category and then four years
later, he again applied for an HSVP plot at Sector 57, albeit this time under
the reserved category, and he emerged a successful allottee.
The beneficiary, in 2017,
allegedly transferred his reserved category plot to a third party after seeking
a no-objection-certificate (NOC) from the screening committee – NOC had been
made mandatory by the high court in the case of sale or transfer of property,
the RTI reply added.
Sanjiv Singla, estate officer
of the HSVP, said, “I will get this checked and action will be initiated
accordingly.”
On September 3, the RTI
applicant had filed a case in local court seeking directions to the police to
register a case against the beneficiary allottee and also against the screening
committee which granted the NOC.
“HSVP reserved category rule
4.7 says only those applicants are eligible to apply who do not own a
residential plot/house in any urban estate of Haryana in his/her name or in the
name of any dependent family member. The screening committee ignored this
provision and granted an NOC despite the fact that the high court has banned
it,” said the applicant SK Sharma, adding that he had lodged complaints with
the HSVP but that no action was taken in the past three-four months. After
noticing the transfer update on the HSVP website, the applicant filed the
RTI seeking plot owner’s details.
Sharma said an RTI filed by
him in 2012 had revealed an alleged state-wide fraud in the allotment of
reserved category plots involving beneficiaries such as those from defence
forces, SC, ST categories, as well as government officials.