Overview
- The Supreme Court stayed National Green Tribunal penalties, including a ₹10 crore environmental compensation, with proceedings kept in abeyance pending related high court matters.
- CBI had already registered an FIR and filed a Section 173(2) report concluding the de-licensing of eight acres was in accordance with law.
- The justices clarified that other disputes tied to the project, including challenges to a 2021 DTCP order, may proceed independently before the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
- The court found the high court erred in assuming the entire 18.98 acres were for housing, noting contracts and approved plans limited the residential project to 10.98 acres and rejecting claims buyers signed “on the dotted line.”
- Officials and counsel said the ruling provides relief to 58 Haryana projects developed through similar de-licensing, with the court noting a 2020 state law that retrospectively validated such actions was not before it for review.