14 cases of double allotment under CM's housing quota: Maha to

Maharashtra government today informed the Bombay High Court it had identified 14 cases wherein the same person or his/her spouse had been allotted more than one house in the state under the chief minister's five per cent discretionary housing quota.
In an affidavit, the government also informed it had detected 101 cases where blood relatives of allottees have been given houses from the CM's quota in the same urban agglomeration or in other urban area.
Besides, ten cases have been identified where same persons have been allotted tenements in 2 per cent quota of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) as well as in 5 per cent quota under the Urban Land Ceiling Act, according to the affidavit, filed by S K Salimath, Deputy Secretary, Urban Development Department.

The court was hearing a PIL filed by ex-scribe Ketan Tirodkar challenging double allotment of houses from the CM's quota.
Taking the affidavit on record, a division bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka asked the state government to inform on February 24 what action it proposed to take in case of double or multiple allotments of houses.
The court wanted to know whether the state would cancel such multiple allotments or launch prosecution against the allottees who have given false information to procure more than one house from the CM's quota.