Gujarat HC: Ahmedabad civic body can’t revoke own orders
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court has ruled that once an authority regularizes unauthorized construction by accepting the impact fee or denies such a request, it cannot review or revoke its decision. The court annulled an order by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) that cancelled a prior regularization of unauthorized construction at the Swastik Complex, a commercial building located in Maninagar. The court found that the authority lacked the jurisdiction to revoke a regularization order under Section 8(4) of the Gujarat Regularisation of Unauthorised Development Act, 2011 (GRUDA). The petition was brought by Unnati Shah and others in response to AMC’s…