Ardee City’s Builder booked by DTCP for violation of license norms

The builder is also found accused of fraudulently showing a land portion owned by Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradikaran (HSVP) in their township when seeking the approval license.

Gurugram: Ardee City Developer, including 13 associates, and their directors are booked by the Department of town and country planning (DTCP) for the violation of project terms and conditions in its residential society.

The builder is also found accused of fraudulently showing a land portion owned by Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradikaran (HSVP) in their township when seeking the approval license.

The move comes on Monday when DTCP officials wrote to the DTCP director for booking action against the Gopal Dass Estates & Housing. The builder and its associates received the license for the development of its flagship project—Ardee City and Palm Grove Heights, spread across 204.4 acres in sectors 51-52 and 57 in which 2,850 families are currently residing. Anil Hasija from Gopal Dass Estates said: “We are seeking legal opinion.”

The builder received three licenses in 1995, 1997, and 2002 for its residential projects. But DTCP authorities received complaints of ownership dispute of 45.2 acres of land. As per rules, the developer first needs to have ownership and possession of the land before applying for a development license.

“The licence was obtained by submitting fake revenue documents. The colony (Ardee City) has not been laid out as per the approved layout plan and a number of other deviations have been observed,” said DTP (enforcement) RS Batth. He said the title of 45.21 acres of land is yet not clear.

According to the letter filed by DTCP to police on Monday, none of the community sites in the colony are transferred to the government during the period as per the agreement norms. “Group housing buildings (blocks A to E) stand occupied without obtaining occupation certificates from the department. None of the documents in compliance with the Haryana Apartment Ownership Act has been submitted to date. None of the EWS plots and flats has been allotted or constructed,” said Batth.

Although the project development was carried out on 702 plots, the occupation certificates were only issued to 301 buildings to date. Besides, the authority hasn’t issued the completion or partial completion certificate for the colony. Till now, the DTCP authority has cancelled the license of Ardee City earlier this month.

The case was under Section 10 (violation of license terms and conditions) of the Haryana Development and Regulations of Urban Areas Act and sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery), 468 (forging document) and 471 (using forged document) of the IPC at Sector 53 police station on Monday.

Gopal Dass Estates Housing, Ardee Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, Ardee Business Centre, Ardee Unitron Computers, SAS Leasing, Ardee Mechanical Industries, Neeta Estates Leasing, Ardee Machines, Shivani Verma, Meenakshi Verma, Vishwakarma Housing, Kangaroo Estates and BR Properties have been named as the accused, among others in the complaint.

Published by– Bagish Jha