MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has sent the Mumbai City Collector Rajiv Nivatkar a notice to show cause as to why action should not be taken under the Contempt of Courts Act given that he “wilfully disobeyed” its direction to attach apartments belonging to a builder in Mahim. The notification is part of a lawsuit […]
Mumbai collector received an HC contempt notice for their inaction on Avarsekar Realty.more MUMBAI: According to the Bombay High Court, tenants have few rights and cannot tell the owner how to renovate their property. The court ordered the BMC to grant a commencement certificate for redevelopment in the matter of a Khar (West) building where an “obstinate tenant” (HC’s words) was delaying renovation. The owner, a limited liability […]
Bombay High Court: Tenants have few rights and can’t control redevelopment.more
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court ruled that the legal mechanism for regularisation “cannot be a weapon to be deployed by the petitioner in every case of rank unlawful building.” The HC turned down a hotelier’s request for an injunction to stop a civic organization from tearing down the illegal buildings and allow time to file […]
Regularization laws should not be used as a tool for illegitimate building.more
PUNE: Arun Seth (78) has been waiting nearly four years for revenue officials to execute a recovery warrant issued by MahaRERA against the contractor for the delay in ensuring possession of an apartment he purchased in Mumbai. “We had reserved a 550-square-foot one-bedroom flat in Malad in 2011. The developer and I reached an agreement […]
Customers are irritated by the slow execution of MahaRERA recovery orders.more The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the demolition of two illegal buildings built over a decade ago in Nerul’s Sector 16A on plots reserved for a public garden. The ареx court has ordered the 165 families living in these “towers of corruption,” as activists refer to Krishna Complex and Trimurti Park, to give […]
Navi Mumbai: The SC orders the evacuation of 165 families in order to demolish illegal structures.more
MUMBAI: The SC upheld an April 2019 Bombay high court decision that invalidated three rules for determining the “capital value” of land where construction is set to begin under a new property tax regime. Despite being a setback for the C, the SC decision by a bench led by Chief Justice U U Lalit and […]
The SC upholds a Bombay HC decision against laws that raise land property taxes.more
MUMBAI: On Thursday, the Bombay High Court ruled that a Maharashtra town planning law does not exempt developers from paying development charges for projects on civic or government land, including redevelopment. The legislation was never intended to allow a developer or any third party seeking to redevelop a plot owned by a public body or […]
Bombay HC: There is no development fee for projects built on government land.more
NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to fine all residential and commercial buildings in the city that have inoperative rainwater harvesting systems. Rainwater harvesting systems are required by law for all residential and commercial structures built on plots larger than 500 square meters. The town planning department will check whether the rainwater harvesting […]
Fines will be imposed on buildings with faulty rainwater harvesting systems.more
MUMBAI: In a money laundering case related to the DHFL loan fraud case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched six premises on Thursday, including Rajen Dhruv’s Orbit Ventures. Kapil Wadhawan and his brother Dheeraj Wadhawan aka Baba Dewan, both former DHFL promoters, are accused of diverting a portion of the fraud money to Orbit Ventures in […]
In the DHFL case, the ED searched the premises of Orbit Ventures and others.more Tenants of the former Janki Bhuvan, which was taken up for redevelopment by Sanghavi Grih Nirman Pvt Ltd in 2009 but was never completed, filed a high court petition. MUMBAI: After seeking permission to evict tenants and demolish a temporary transit building in Prabhadevi, the Bombay High Court warned the BMC to avoid builders. On […]
Bombay HC Raps BMC on ‘Keep a Distance from Builders’.more
