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ARGUMENTS ON BEHALF OF NOIDA AUTHORITY

31. Sri Manish Goyal, learned Senior Advocate appearing for NOIDA Authority has placed the scheme of Sports City, and made the following submissions:-

THE SPORTS CITY SCHEME

32. The NOIDA Authority invited sealed 'Technical Qualification Bids' and 'Financial Bids' from interested eligible parties for development of two sports cities (one in Sector 78 & 79 and another in Sector-150 of NOIDA). The bidder had to submit sealed tender in the prescribed forms for development and construction of the Sports City. The land was offered on lease for ninety years basis. Certain important conditions stipulated in the scheme document for the development of Sports City are being enumerated below:-

59. The main plank of argument of NOIDA Authority was that sports city was an integrated project and has to be developed as one by all the consortium member to whom the project was allotted. If the allottees had managed to illegally get some sub lease executed or got a map sanctioned and divide the integrated project illegally, then allottes cannot seek benefit of such an illegal act which was an outcome of connivance of the Builders and the officials of the NOIDA Authority.

60. After the allotment of the project, time and again the condition in the Brochure and the scheme were breached by the allotees/ sub-leassees, in connivance with the officers of the NOIDA Authority. However, no explanation was called from the concerned officers of NOIDA Authority nor any action was taken against them.

61. This is the case where every action of the NOIDA Authority smacks of corruption and scam. The entire process of development of the Sports City including conceiving the scheme, allotment, execution of the lease deed, sanction of Map, and implementation of the sports city smacks of fraud and corruption. The allottees /builder in connivance with the NOIDA officials had played a huge fraud and the victims are NOIDA Authority, State of U.P. and the home buyers.

62. What is more shocking is that even after CAG pointed out in its report regarding the scam and fraud played by the builder and connivance of the officer of NOIDA Authority, no action has been taken by the NOIDA Authority and the State Government against such delinquent officials till date.

CBI INQUIRY

74. We would be remised in our duty, if we ignore the illegalities committed by the builders (sub-lessees) in connivance with the officials of NOIDA Authority which has snow balled into a major land scam and which, according to CAG, has led to significant loss to the NOIDA Authority and the State Government. We are constrained to record the total lack of concern shown by the NOIDA Authority and State Government on the report of the CAG and we wonder as to why no action has been taken against the builders (sub-lessees) and the officers of the NOIDA Authority, who were involved in this scam.