GURGAON: The Punjab and Haryana high court has revoked the licence for Brahma City, a plotted residential colony being developed on 151 acres of land in Gurgaon. The project, spanning Nangli, Umarpur, Ullahawas, Maidawas and Kadarpur villages in sectors 60, 61, 62, 63 and 65, has hundreds of investors and is being developed by Krrish Buildtech Private Limited.

The court quashed the licence because it found irregularities in the application and also slammed the Department of Town and Country Planning for its negligent approach in granting permission. It observed that in Gurgaon, land can be weighed in gold and the DTCP should perform its duty with utmost seriousness, which was found to be missing.

The order was passed on February 5 by a bench of justices S K Mittal and Deepak Sibal. The court asked the DTCP to take up the application of Krrish Buildtech afresh strictly in accordance with rules.

The petitioner, M/s Fondant Propbuild Private Limited and others, had approached the high court for quashing of Licence No. 64 of 2010, alleging it was obtained fraudulently. Soon after the licence was granted, the petitioners said they had moved an application to the DTCP director, bringing to his notice that land measuring 2.29 acres, for which the petitioners already had the licence, had been wrongly included in the total area for Brahma City.

When the court called for the land records, it found that Krrish Buildtech had included land of other land-owners in the application submitted for grant of licence without their consent. The court also found that most of these parcels of land had been included in the application only for maintaining contiguity and access. It observed that land parcels of Bela Builders and Jai Kishan Promoters Ltd was included in the plan without their consent.

In a statement, Krrish Buildtech said the entire litigation was motivated by Fondant Propbuild and other companies with vested interest for personal benefits. A spokesperson for Krrish Buildtech said the licence was wrongly quashed. “No objection was made by any landowner except the owner of a small area of 2.99 acres, and that too after three years .The DTCP itself stated that this 2.99 acres had been included inadvertently and excluded the same,” the spokesperson said.