SMT DEVI ALIAS DEVI BAI vs DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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$~2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 11th February, 2025 + W.P.(C) 9051/2022 & CM APPL. 65310/2023 SMT DEVI ALIAS DEVI BAI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Gaurav Sarin, Sr. Advocate with Mr. S.K. Rout, Mr. Harish Kumar and Mr. Rahul Kumar, Advocates. versus DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY .....Respondent Through: Mr. Rajiv Shukla with Ms. Shivani Kapoor, Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Advocate. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioner, who is an octogenarian, seeks direction to respondent/Authority to execute Lease Deed of property bearing No.B-7/34, Safdarjung Extension, New Delhi in her favour and also seeks a direction to convert the above said plot from leasehold to freehold and to execute Conveyance Deed accordingly. 2. Petitioner had filed a suit way back in the year 1979 which was registered as Suit No.546/79. Such suit was decreed in her favour and as per Decree, the respondent i.e. DDA was, inter alia, directed to allot an alternative site in the vicinity, to the extent of 80% of 104 sq. yards of the land of petitioner which had been acquired/taken possession of by DDA. 3. Pursuant to the abovesaid, according to petitioner, the respondent had issued one Demand Notice offering her 70 sq. meter of plot i.e. property bearing No.B-7/34, Safdarjung Extension, New Delhi. Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 9051/2022 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:12.02.2025 12:11:21 Such Demand Notice is stated to be of 02.05.1989. 4. The grievance of petitioner is that though the possession of the above said plot was handed over to her and she continues to be in possession of the above said plot since then, whenever she visited the respondent for execution of registry of plot in her name, she was informed that the file of the