Gurugram: Registry ban on Ardee City residents' sales deeds lifted

Gurugram: Registry ban on Ardee City residents’ sales deeds lifted

GURUGRAM: The directorate of town and country planning (DTCP), in a major relief to Ardee City residents, has allowed the registration of sales deeds of their properties in the colony. However, an official said, the ban on registration of properties owned by the developer or licensee companies has not been lifted. The order was issued on Thursday.

RS Batth, district town planner (enforcement), said, “The department has cancelled the licence of the colony after the developer failed to rectify discrepancies despite repeated reminders. The residents didn’t want the authorities to make the ban pplicable to those properties which have already been registered. Now, the directorate has allowed the registration of properties owned by residents. However, the ban on the sale and registration by the developer will stay.”

The registration of Property sales deeds was banned following the cancellation of licence of Ardee City in September. Calling the move unjustified, members of the residents’ welfare association (RWA) had approached chief principal secretary DS Dhesi earlier in December and urged them to lift a blanket ban on the registration of their properties.

“The authorities’ move to lift the blanket ban on registry imposed in September has come as a huge relief to residents. We had reached out to DTCP officials and the deputy commissioner in a bid to apprise them of our concerns. We also
approached local elected representatives, but no step was taken by them. Finally, we met the chief principal secretary and the director of DTCP in Chandigarh on December 2 and raised our concerns on the move to impose a blanket ban on the
registry of property sales deeds. It is a New Year gift to all of us,” Praveen Yadav, RWA president of Ardee City. Spread across 209 acres in sectors 51, 52 and 57, the privately developed colony has around 2,500 families who were affected by the authorities’ decision to impose the ban on sales deeds registry. The decision to impose the ban has affected especially those who were planning to purchase the properties. Also, it had created a sense of uncertainty among residents. “The ban on the registry was unjustified. We had to undergo a lot of stress because of the wrongdoing of the builder. The decision taken by the authorities now is a huge relief for all those who had initiated transactions. The pandemic has already inflicted hardship on us and many among us are in need of money,” Chaitali Mandhotra, member, Ardee City RWA.

The builder was given three licences in 1995, 1997 and again in 2002 for the project. In 2010,the department received a complaint over the disputed ownership of around 42 acres of land. In September this year, the DTCP cancelled the licence of the colony after the developer failed to resolve land disputes and didn’t have complete ownership. According to the DTCP, even after repeated reminders, it has failed to submit the compliance regarding the clear title of 41.8 acres. Moreover, the developer failed to handover the EWS plots earmarked, a DTCP official said