The order of the single judge bench of Justice M N Bhandari was on a petition of one Sugam Singh, a successful allottee of a plot by the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) in PRN scheme.
The scheme has run into controversy for the last 22 years with land mafias illegally chalking out plots in the area where the scheme was proposed to be developed.
It was contended by R D Rastogi counsel for applicant Sugam Singh that "There were many successful allottees who were required by the JDA to be given plots in PRN, but they were never allotted houses. The government is now regularising the illegal encroachers in the locality without first allotting land or plots to the original allottees".
"Applicant Sugam Singh was one of the allottees in the first phase but they were told later that the JDA had earmarked one Kalpana Nagar in Jagatpur for them. But that was also scraped and the allottees were proposed to be shifted to village Kanota, about 30 kms away from the original site", Rastogi said.
Taking note of the situation Justice Bhandari called for an explanation from Advocate General G S Bapna, who informed that the government has undertaken the process to regularise the illegal encroachments in the locality.
"But the government failed to explain to the Court as to why the successful allottees are not being given preference over the persons who have illegally obtained houses and plots in the locality", argued Rastogi.
Whereupon the Court directed the state government to submit the scheme for regularisation of the enroachers and also to reserve land for the successful allottees at the original proposed site.
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Directing that no water and electricity connections be released in the entire PRN scheme, the Court ordered that no construction is allowed in the locality.
"Any complaint regarding construction will be viewed seriously", said Justice Bhandari.
There are more than two lakh houses illegally constructed in PRN scheme.