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20 years on, GDA may file FIR against officials for 134 extra flats in society
Ghaziabad: GDA will take action against several current and former officials who allowed a private developer to construct and sell 134 extra flats beyond the sanctioned 400 units at Express Garden society in Indirapuram's Vaibhav Khand in 2005.
A GDA panel, set up on the direction of the Allahabad High Court, is set to submit its report to the Authority's additional secretary later this week. The high court is due to hear the matter in Sept.
Officials, privy to the content of the committee's findings, said the panel has recommended "FIR be filed against the architect, developer and the then GDA officials under whose watch the additional units were constructed".
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A residents' group of Express Garden that filed a petition in Allahabad high court in May 2022, stating that since 2015, no yearly election was held for the residential society on the pretext that the deed of declaration was defective.
"During the hearing, it was learnt that the promoter had constructed 534 units in place of the sanctioned 400 in the project map," Vijay Rathi, a resident who is also one of the complainants, said.
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A single judge bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal, in an order dated Dec 20, 2023, said, "The vice-chairman is to initiate/conduct an inquiry against the subordinate staff who are responsible for monitoring the project in which an additional 134 units have been carved out against the sanctioned strength of 400 units."
Last Feb, TOI reported that the internal probe by the GDA had zeroed in on some officials deputed mostly at the development authority's enforcement wing between 2008 and 2012, and notices had been served to them.
Developer Pankaj Goyal, meanwhile, said he was not aware of any probe by a GDA-led panel against the project. "We did not tamper with the covered area but subdivided bigger flats to carve out 134 extra units," Goyal said. "We are for regularising the extra units as per the provisions of Building Bylaws, 2016, for which we approached the state govt and got the necessary sanction. This will be presented in the court." In 2005, the GDA approved the layout of Express Garden, allowing the construction of 400 flats on plot number 6 of Vaibhav Khand.
The construction was completed between 2008-12.
