HSVP chief will be summoned, if affidavit not filed: Punjab and Haryana High Court

More than a month has lapsed since the Punjab and Haryana High Court — among other things — ordered that the allotment of plots by the Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) would not be finalised in future till the acquired land’s final demarcation, the state has failed to place before the Bench the Chief Administrator’s affidavit on the compliance of the directions.

Taking up the matter, the Bench of Justice Amol Rattan Singh and Justice Lalit Batra asserted that the affidavit had not been filed in terms of the previous order. Responding to a query as to whether the directions with regard to “instructions/orders/circulars” had been so issued as directed by the court, the counsel for the respondents sought time to take instructions.