Truth has prevailed: Emerald Court residents on SC order to pull down illegal towers

Noida | Tuesday | 31st August, 2021

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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.

Buyers who have invested their money in these towers, however, hoped their interest would be protected, even as the Supertech Group said it would be filing a review petition in the case.

Emerald Court residents 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 twin 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,” S K Sharma, former president of Emerald Court"s RWA, told PTI.