(1.) PUBLIC AUCTION FOR PLOT NO:19, SITE NO.4, BLOCK NO.5 GEETA COLONY WAS HELD ON 24.9.1996. PETITIONERS WERE THE HIGHEST BIDDERS. BID IN SUM OF RS.10,70,045/- WAS CONFIRMED. PETITIONERS PAID THE BID AMOUNT AS PER TIME GRANTED. FULL PAYMENT WAS MADE ON 9.12.1996. POSSESSION OF THE PLOT WAS HANDED OVER ON 19.12.1997.
(2.) AUCTION OF THE PLOT WAS ON 'AS IS WHERE IS BASIS'. BIDDERS WERE THUS PRESUMED TO HAVE ACQUAINTED THEMSELVES WITH THE SITE.
(3.) ACCORDING TO THE PETITIONERS, WHEN THEY VISITED THE SITE IN JANUARY 1998 THEY FOUND THAT DELHI JAL BOARD (DJB) AUTHORITIES WERE CONSTRUCTING A SEWER PLANT ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE PLOT WITH SOME PART OF THE FOUNDATIONS INSIDE THE PLOT. SEWER PIPES AND ANGLES WERE LYING SCATTERED ALL AROUND. PETITIONERS CLAIM TO HAVE MET OFFICIALS OF DDA WITH A REQUEST THAT SITE OF THE PLOT BE RELOCATED. SINCE PERSONAL INTERACTION WAS NOT YIELDING THE DESIRED RESULT, ON 9.9.1999 PETITION NO.1 WROTE A LETTER AS UNDER: