Overview
- Setting aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s July 10, 2020 order, a bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Sandeep Mehta ruled that directing the CBI to register an FIR was unsustainable.
- The Supreme Court stayed the National Green Tribunal’s ₹10 crore environmental compensation against the developer, with the tribunal matter to be taken up separately at the appropriate stage.
- The bench noted the CBI has already filed a Section 173(2) report finding the de-licensing of 8 acres to be in accordance with law.
- The judges held the High Court proceeded on an erroneous premise about land use, pointing to contracts and approved plans showing the residential colony over 10.98 acres and separate commercial development on the balance.
- The court flagged nearly a decade of inaction by flat owners as undermining their case, and clarified that connected proceedings before the High Court and NGT will continue on their own merits.