CHANDIGARH HOUSING BOARD Vs. AVTAR SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) With a view to promote private housing and optimum utilisation of the land in Chandigarh by constructing multi-storeyed structures, the Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh framed a scheme called "Chandigarh Allotment of Land to Co-operative House Building Societies Scheme, 1991" (for short, Rs. the 1991 Scheme) for allotment of land to Co-operative House Building Societies (for short, Rs. the Societies) through Chandigarh Housing Board (for short, Rs. the Board). The opening paragraph of the 1991 Scheme and Clauses 3, 4 and 6 to 12 thereof read as under:

(3.) Fifty three Societies challenged the 1991 Scheme in Writ Petition No. 1454 of 1992 filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court with the following prayer: