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Morbi Drops Slum Demolition After Residents’ Gujarat HC Appeal

AHMEDABAD: The Morbi Municipal Corporation has reversed its demolition order for the slum on Panchasar Road. This decision came after 115 residents approached the Gujarat High Court, alleging that the civic body was attempting to evict them without offering alternative housing. The slum-dwellers filed a petition, asserting that they have lived in the area for decades, with government acknowledgment of their presence dating back to the Machchhu floods in 1979. Since then, they have been requesting government action to regularize their settlement. During a road-widening initiative carried out by the municipality between 2020 and 2023, the slum residents cooperated by…

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Gujarat HC: Society NOCs Required Despite Civic Body Approval

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court has put a stop to the construction of a ten-storey building in Vadodara, ruling that it was built without the necessary No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the cooperative housing society and violated its bylaws, despite the approval granted by civic authorities. The controversy involves the 60-year-old Alka Co-operative Housing Society Ltd, where owners of four plots began construction in 2024 after receiving a development permit from the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC). The society raised objections, asserting that the construction encroached on its road and breached bylaws that designated plots for residential use only. The society…

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Gujarat HC Penalizes Flat Owners for Redevelopment Delay

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court has levied a fine of ₹1 lakh on dissenting members of Surya Apartments-2 for attempting to obstruct its redevelopment via litigation, which led the court to label their actions as creating an “artificial emergency” for an expedited hearing. Surya Apartments-2, constructed in 1987 by the Gujarat Housing Board on Sola Road, Ahmedabad, has 132 flat owners, of which 110 consented to the redevelopment, meeting the necessary legal requirements. The GHB, a co-lease owner, also supported the project in 2022. However, 34 dissenting members contested this decision in civil court, which on September 2 declined to…

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Gujarat HC Lifts Stay on Pacifica Developers’ Civil Prison Order

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court has undone the stay on the Gujarat Real Estate Regulatory Authority’s (GujRERA) order to detain officials from Pacifica Developers Pvt Ltd, including managing director Rakesh Israni, in civil prison for 60 days. The developers were penalized for not delivering a house to a buyer and for allegedly selling the same property to someone else. Last week, Justice Vaibhavi Nanavati not only permitted the enforcement of the civil prison order but also referred the case to a division bench for potential contempt proceedings against Israni, as well as other officials—Darpan Tarwani, Kaushik Patel, and Jay Chandani—for…