Plot owners cannot claim layout as Gated, when roads gifted to Local Authority: HC
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The Telangana High Court made it clear that those who purchase plots in a layout cannot claim their layout is a gated community, when the developer or layout owner has gifted the internal roads in the venture to the local body and mortgaged a few portions of the venture to it. The court was dealing with a petition regarding a layout where the developer had built a compound wall and gates on the periphery and sold it as a gated community. The bench was dealing with an appeal which challenged the single judge orders directing the Shadnagar muncipality to act as per the law in the demolition of compound wall constructed by Sri Sai Balaji Developers in the layout on land admeasuring 83 acres and 0825 cents in Survey No.s 139, 140, 145, 146, 147, 150 and 151 of Solipur of Farooqnagar mandal. The Shadnagar municipality commissioner then issued notice stating that the developer had advertised the layout as a gated community, constructed a compound wall and installed gates which blocked general traffic.