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This is an archive article published on March 6, 2025
Godrej Properties Limited seeks quashing of FIR, High Court issues notice to CBI
The matter came up for hearing before the bench of Justice Manjari Nehru Kaul, which on hearing the contentions issued notice to the CBI for May 20.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court Wednesday issued notice to the CBI over a petition filed by Godrej Properties Limited, seeking quashing of the FIR registered against it by the CBI.
The matter came up for hearing before the bench of Justice Manjari Nehru Kaul, which on hearing the contentions issued notice to the CBI for May 20.
The CBI had registered a case against Godrej Estate Developers and along with unidentified officials of the Chandigarh Administration over alleged cheating and corruption related to environmental clearance violations in a commercial complex located in Industrial Area, Phase I, Chandigarh. As per the CBI, occupation certificate (OC) of Godrej Eternia was cancelled by the UT Estate Office in July 2024 due to violations of environmental clearance and building plan conditions. The project allegedly failed to secure mandatory permission from the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife, a key requirement under environmental clearance norms. The authorities claim that the building plan, including the revised one, and occupation certificate were obtained through misrepresentation and concealment of facts.
The petitioner, Godrej Properties, through counsel, Senior Advocate R S Rai, and Advocates Karan Pathak and Kunal Dawar argued that the impugned FIR is a classic example of misuse of the criminal machinery at the hands of the complainant, as no criminality is involved in the said FIR. It was argued that the allegations made in the FIR are fabricated, malicious and an afterthought. The allegations have been made just to entangle the petitioner-company in frivolous proceedings. Also, the FIR does not disclose the essential requirements of offences, which are alleged against the petitioner company and the same cannot form the foundation or constitute the starting point of lawful investigation, which were further substantiated from the facts mentioned below, argued the petitioner counsel.
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