RAMESH KUMAR SHUKLA Vs. ALLAHABAD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Sri Murlidhar. the learned senior advocate appearing for the petitioner. Sri Ashok Mohiley, the learned standing counsel of the respondent Nos. 1 and 2, and Sri M. P. Sarraf, holding brief of Sri Vineet Saran, the learned counsel representing the respondent No. 3, permitted to be impleaded by the order of the Court dated November 22, 1994, at length and in detail.

(2.) The acts and events constituting the facts of the case, as they emerge from the pleadings before the Court, are these :

(3.) The Secretary of the Development Authority addressed to the petitioner a communication dated September 28, 1988, a copy whereof is Annexure-1 to the petition, notifying that the petitioner had been allotted a plot bearing No. B--38 measuring 162 sq. meter at the rate of Rs. 510 per sq. meter. The communication further informed the petitioner that out of total estimated price of the plot amounting to Rs. 82,620, the sum of Rs. 15,000 deposited by him as registration fees had been adjusted towards the price of the plot and called upon him to pay the balance amounting to Rs. 67.620 in four equal quarterly instalments of Rs. 16,905. The first instalment was payable upto October 31, 1988, the second instalment was payable upto January 31, 1989, the third instalment was payable upto April 30, 1989 and the fourth instalment was payable upto July 31. 1989.