Bombay high court stays flat allotments under Maharashtra CM’s quota

Granting a stay on the allotments of tenements under the chief minister’s discretionary quota, the Bombay high court has called for a list of all the allotments made under the quota in the last five years.

In a petition filed by Dr Tekchand Kaushik, an advocate with the central government currently staying at Napeansea Road, his counsel Advait Sethna alleged that a flat allotted to Kaushik in Versova’s Excellency Co-operative Housing Society under the CM’s quota in 2005, was transferred to a third person without his knowledge by the society.

The petition stated that he was allotted a tenement under the quota through a letter issued on September 5, 2005 by the principal secretary, housing.

However, for more than four years the flat was not handed over to him. He has stated that the flat was allotted to DN Mapuskar, a former registrar of the high court through a letter of June 26, 2006.

Government pleader DA Nalavade told the court that Kaushik was allotted a tenement in the building but he refused to accept it saying it was small. However, in his affidavit of August 8, 2010, Kaushik denied having asked for a larger flat in Ghatkopar lieu of the Versova one.