The Haryana Urban Development Authority on Thursday sealed four petrol pumps running on its land after the owners failed to pay the monthly rent. Total Rs7 crore are to be recovered from the owners of four petrol pumps.
The lease agreement of these petrol pumps has also been cancelled by the civic body of HUDA. The land for the pump was provided by HUDA on April 6, 2004 on a 15 years lease.
According to senior officials of HUDA, “These four petrol pumps situated at Sector-9 (A), 18, 37 and 12 at Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway. HUDA has given lands to the petrol pumps owners on lease agreements. It’s a long pending due which the owners have to pay to the authority. We have sent many notices to the owners but the owners failed to pay the rent to us.”
“These petrol pumps named as SS Filing station is owned by the 1999 Kargil martyr at Sector-12(A), A-city auto petrol at Sector-37, Santosh Service Station at Sector-18 including another one owned by a political leader located at Sector-9 at the city expressway. We have also cancelled lease agreement of these pumps. Earlier, these petrol pumps were allotted to owners on lease agreement,” said a senior official of HUDA.
“The enforcement work was done after the direction of our head office in ChandIJgarh, Punchkula. We had been sending several reminders and notices to the owners to pay their remaining rents but they continuously ignored it. The remaining amount has to be given by fuel pumps are Rs97 lakh from Sector-12, Rs2.5 crore from Sector-37, Rs2.5 crore from Sector-18 and Rs1 crore from Sector 9,” said Sarvesh Jhunn, Head Enforcement wing (HUDA).