Punjab granting Tata housing project clearance smacks of arbitrariness: SC

Apex court cancels Tata Housing Development's environmental clearances for residential complex on Sukhna lake bank

The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the Punjab government for not acting against a housing complex proposed to be developed by Tata Housing Development near the Sukhna lake and Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary.

In its judgment cancelling all the administrative clearances given for the housing complex proposed to be built on nearly 53 acres of land, the SC said that environment clearance “suffered from legal malafides, and it amounts to colourable exercise of power since about 95 MLAs of the State of Punjab are the beneficiaries   of the proposed project”.

Tata Housing had proposed to develop a 28-storey housing-cum-retail project over nearly 53