A Jaipur consumer court has ordered the arrest of two senior Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) officers after a resident alleged that the authority failed to provide possession of a plot allotted to him under the Nilay Kunj Housing Scheme, despite years of litigation and payment of the full amount.
District Consumer Commission-II, Jaipur, issued arrest warrants against JDA commissioner Siddharth Mahajan and Zone-9 deputy commissioner Suryakant Sharma on Thursday. The commission directed the Jaipur police commissioner to arrest the officers and produce them before it on October 12.
The order followed a contempt complaint filed by Jaipur resident Krishna, who said JDA had not complied with an earlier commission order in the dispute. According to the complaint, Krishna applied for a plot under the Nilay Kunj Housing Scheme and was allotted Plot No. 454 through a lottery. He did not receive possession even after a year and approached the district consumer commission.
After nearly four years of proceedings, the commission directed JDA in 2016 to issue Krishna a possession letter for the allotted plot. JDA challenged that order before the state consumer commission, the National Consumer Commission and the Supreme Court, but did not obtain relief, according to the report.
Krishna filed a contempt petition in 2020, alleging that the authority had still not implemented the commission’s direction. He told the commission that Plot No. 454 had subsequently been allotted to another person, creating a second layer of dispute over the original allotment.
JDA later allotted Krishna Plot No. 7 in the Nilay Kunj Scheme Phase-II. The resident deposited the full amount for the replacement plot, but alleged that he still could not obtain actual and complete possession. He further claimed that JDA changed the layout and reduced the plot’s front width, affecting the characteristics of the land allotted to him.
The case highlights the practical consequences of prolonged delays in public housing schemes, where an allotment may not translate into possession even after payments, administrative orders and multiple rounds of legal proceedings. For applicants, the dispute also concerns whether a replacement plot offered by an authority provides the same enforceable entitlement as the original allotment.
The commission’s latest action places responsibility directly on senior officials for alleged non-compliance with its orders. The arrest warrants do not conclude the underlying property dispute, but require the named officers to appear before the commission through police production on the scheduled date.
The next formal step is the production of the two JDA officers before District Consumer Commission-II, Jaipur, on October 12, as directed in the order.
