The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has written to the Delhi Government to waive the stamp duty fee for a flat that has been allotted to the father of December 16 gang-rape victim. According to an estimate, the stamp duty of the registration of the MIG flat in Dwarka is expected to be around Rs5-6 lakh and the allottee will have to pay the same as the registration fee. The authority now wants the stamp duty fee to be written off by the Delhi Government.
The girl, a paramedical student, was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on December 16 in a moving chartered bus, triggering a massive nationwide uproar. The girl had died in a Singapore hospital on December 29. Following the direction of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the Ministry of Urban Development has allotted a middle-income group flat of DDA to the victim’s father Badri Nath Singh. The (flat no 118, pocket 3 at second floor in Sector 19) was allotted in Dwarka, which is valued around `50 lakh. The flat was allotted from the vacant pool of the DDA. The issue of allotting a flat to the victim’s family, which hails from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, had come up during a visit by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to their residence. The family had requested for a flat closer to the main city.
In a letter to the Delhi Government, DDA’s Principal Commissioner (land and Disposal) T Shreenidhi has urged to exempt stamp duty fee for the flat allotted to the father. Shreenidhi has stated that the Government should treat it as a special case.
Sources in the Revenue Department stated that the Government can exempt stamp duty fee from the property allotted to the father of the victim as a special case. “The proposal is put up before the Finance Department as a special case,” said sources.