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Noida, Aug 31 (PTI) With the Supreme Court ordering demolition of Supertech"s 40-storey illegal twin towers in Noida Sector 93, residents of the realty firm’s Emerald Court on Tuesday said the truth has prevailed and their faith in the apex court has grown stronger.
They heaved a sigh of relief that their decade-long legal battle came to an end with the top court ordering the demolition of the two illegal high-rise towers on their premises.
Residents said the housing project has 660 flats across 15 towers but in 2009 work started on the two towers, coming up in the violation of building by-laws but they were told the construction was part of a separate project.
“We, however, insisted on seeing drawings and approvals of the project which appeared to be huge and against rules stipulating a certain distance between two such structures.
“After several efforts, we got to see the drawings and were shocked after realising that we were being taken for a ride by the builder with brazen violation of rules,” former president S K Sharma of Emerald Court’s RWA told PTI.
After this, some of the residents in 2012 moved the Allahabad High Court, which ordered the demolition of the two towers two years later but the realtor challenged it in the Supreme Court.