A police inquiry report submitted to a local court has found that officials of the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA), under pressure from the then chief minister Ashok Gehlot, illegally approved the construction plan of the high-rise super luxury apartment housing complex Pallacia.

Pallacia is owned by Om Metals Group, which was linked to Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot in 2012, during the former Congress regime.

Spread over 19,135 sq. metre area of land, Pallacia is located in the heart of the city at the Statue Circle in Jaipur’s C-Scheme, a stone’s throw from the state secretariat.

The luxury complex Pallacia is linked to Ashok Gehlot (left)'s son Vaibhav (right).

According to the company, the housing complex will provide “high-end apartments focusing on niche clientele and... world class amenities”.

Om Metals Infraprojects Private Limited and its 100 per cent subsidiary Om Metals Consortium Private Limited, which is constructing 152 flats on a plot, reportedly bought it for Rs 158 crore from its owner Maharaja Shree Ummed Mills Limited, in 2010.

The 11-page police report, submitted by assistant police commissioner Mahendra Harsana in the court of metropolitan magistrate Rajendra Singh Jatav on Wednesday, said that because of the Om Metal directors’ proximity with former CM Gehlot and the fact that Vaibhav was a legal consultant to the company, the government officials colluded with them to clear the project.

The police report, a copy of which is with Mail Today, went to the extent of alleging that a writ petition filed in the matter before the Rajasthan High Court was quashed on the ground that it was not a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), though on an earlier occasion the high court had stayed the “illegal construction”.

It happened under pressure and influence, the report added.

The report also alleged that the then advocate general of the state was made to give wrong advice that that the said land was not covered under the ceiling law.

Responding to a petition filed by a Jaipur resident Bhagwat Gaur, the subordinate court had asked the police in June this year to submit an inquiry report in the matter.

The report said the then JDA commissioner Kuldeep Ranka and other officials illegally approved the project violating all rules and regulations, and favoured Om Metals to the tune of Rs 300 crores.

The plot number A-2 near Statue Circle was sold to Maharaja Shree Ummed Mill Pvt Limited by Sri Anand Puria Trust in February 14, 1952.

Ummed Mill in 1961 got approval for building staff quarters, office and guest houses for the company directors; and the registry of the plot was shown as ‘institutional’ and not for residential purposes.