Submit report before HC within week: SC

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 7

Just over a month after the UT Administration was rapped for skirting the “vital issue” regarding the sale of independent floors in the city before directing the holding of a fact-finding exercise, the Supreme Court has ordered the authorities to submit a report before the Punjab and Haryana High Court within a week. The High Court was also asked to proceed with the hearing of the petition on the issue after taking into account the report and hearing the parties. “The High Court is requested to adjudicate the dispute in the writ petition at the earliest, preferably within two weeks from today,” the Supreme Court added.

The apex court Bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao, Justice BR Gavai and Justice BV Nagarathna asserted that the direction issued by the High Court on conducting a physical survey of the properties, to be identified by the Estate Officer with transfer of shares, was stayed. The order was passed on August 9 while observing that the pendency of the special leave petition would not deter the High

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