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Owners of GBP Group booked for developing illegal colony in Mohali’s Mullanpur
Police verifying names of group’s directors, who have been booked on a complaint by officials of the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority
Police have booked the owners of GBP Group, a real estate developer, for raising a colony in Togan, Mullanpur, without permission from the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA).
“We are verifying names of the group’s directors. They have been booked under the Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act and Punjab New Capital (Periphery) Control Act following a complaint by GMADA officials,” said Yogesh Kumar, the station house officer (SHO) of Mullanpur.
He added that the group had constructed its office and was selling plots at the illegal colony without any permission, as warranted under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016.
On the group’s part, Satish Gupta, MD, GBP Group said: “We vehemently deny the allegations by GMADA that led to police action without any proper investigation. As a law-abiding real estate developer, we have been working in the tricity for a decade and have also delivered multiple residential projects. We have a couple of ongoing projects on PR7 Road, Derabassi, Zirakpur, Mohali Extension and Kharar. GBP has always maintained its sanctity as a real estate developer and will continue to do so. Our request to GMADA will be to carry out a fair investigation and understand our perspective as well. We have acquired the land in joint development agreement (JDA) and built a temporary office in the location; however, no further development has been executed there for the past two years.”
