MIAL gets stay order on airport land sale

Mumbai: Mumbai International Airport (MIAL), a special purpose vehicle set up to improve infrastructure facilities at the Mumbai airport, has received a stay order from the city civil court on illegal sale of land.
A company called Star Chemicals has sold the land to the city-based Goenka Infra for an undisclosed amount in February. When contacted, the MIAL spokesperson confirmed that the company received a stay order on the deal, without divulging details as the matter was sub-judice.
This is one among many instances of MIAL land being fraudulently sold off by a handful of unauthorised entities in the past two months. MIAL had received around 1,800-acre from the Airport Authority of India (AAI) three years ago. It is estimated that around 276 acres of land in Sahar, Vile Parle, Marol, Chakala and Kurla have been fraudulently encroached in the past few months.
A person familiar with the matter said MIAL has been taking legal recourses against unauthorised deals. Stringent actions, both civil and criminal, would be initiated against those involved in such illegal transactions in next few weeks, he added.
The ownership of some plots, which the government had acquired in the 1950s, remained in the names of entities other than the central government and AAI in the records of Tahsildar’s office and city survey department. AAI and MIAL have approached the authorities to make the necessary corrections, said the person quoted earlier.
20/03/09 Mithun Roy/Economic Times

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Categories: Airports Mar 2009