HUDA to crack whip on booth defaulter

GURGAON: The HUDA is all set to crack the whip on an employee for illegally taking possession of the commercial ‘booth’ (shop) in the Sector 5 market. After receiving a complaint, HUDA has now issued notice to the employee and was planning to evict him from the booth.
It’s learnt that the booths of the market had been auctioned in 1996. The employee had got the booth at the auction.HUDA sources said that the erring employee had paid only 15% of the amount for the booth but continued to occupy it. After noticing the payment default, HUDA had in 1997 cancelled the allotment.
But in 2008, the employee made some payments and the booth was re-allotted to him. As per the terms and conditions of the allotment the employee had to pay monthly instalments for the booth. In 2002, the booth was reconstructed illegally and a basement was also constructed.
The HUDA employee used his influence to avoid any action.
Around that time he had even got transferred from Gurgaon and had rented out the shop to a property dealer. For over 10 years everything was hunky-dory till the HUDA administration received a complaint against the illegal occupancy of the booth.
“As per the rules, the booth will be vacated and the culprit will face legal action,” said a HUDA official. The civic agency had dug out all the allotment records of the auction to find out the exact payments made for the booth. HUDA is also calculating the payment which needs to be recovered from the booth owner. At present, the booth has no sign board.