The Bombay High Court Thursday asked the state urban development department (UDD) to submit a list of cases of allotees under the Chief Ministers discretionary housing quota in which there are alleged double allotments to one person or two persons of the same family. Former journalist Ketan Tirodkar had filed a PIL questioning double or multiple allotments of tenements under the discretionary quota. Tirodkar,who had filed an RTI application seeking the information,said he had received the names of allotees from 1989 to 2010 but no details were furnished of those who had received more than one allotment. Tirodkar had alleged politicians were the main beneficiaries of such allotments and that resourceful people were allotted flats at concessional rates from the discretionary quota while needy people were left out. In the PIL,Tirodkar said PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal was allotted a 825 sq ft tenement in Pune in 1992 under the MLA quota while his nephew Sameer Bhujbal was awarded a 1,040 sq ft tenement in Sangamwadi,Pune,under the intense need for space category that comprises 3.10 per cent of the 10 per cent discretionary quota. Others named in Tirodkars PIL include Pratap Pawar,brother of union minister Sharad Pawar,who also bagged a flat under the intense need for space category,Bhagvati Sharma,mother-in-law of former CM Ashok Chavan who was allotted a 800 sq m flat in Powai,son and daughter of BJP leader Prakash Jawadekar who were allotted separate flats in Mumbai,Tushar Khadse,son of Opposition leader Eknath Khadse and Abid Hasan Mushrif,son of NCP leader Hasan Mushrif,were also allegedly allotted flats under the discretionary quota,Tirodkar claimed. The court asked UDD to furnish the list of alleged double allotees by September 20. mumbai.newsline@expressindia.com
