Thursday
25th Apr 2024
Dhivehi Edition
The High Court has stated that they could not issue an order for the ceasing of all land sales from the Hulhumale Phase 2 area.
The High Court had been requested by Zulfeena Rasheed to issue the order to the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).
The HDC had recently announced the availability of 60 plots of land for sale from the Phase 2 area, these lands had also included plots of land that had been put on sale by the HDC in 2017.
At the time of the sale, Zulfeena Rasheed's case against HDC had been ongoing at the Civil Court.
Zulfeena Rasheed's case against HDC had been submitted to the Civil Court in May 2020. She had claimed that the HDC had shortlisted 42 buyers for the 2017 land-sale; only 36 actually received the opportunity to buy land, and some of them had not ended up buying any land.
The case claimed that the HDC had not given the remaining applicants, in the order they were short-listed, any opportunities to buy land. This had contradicted the HDC's announcement.
The Civil Court had noted that the case had been submitted several years after the incident and that a temporary stop order had not been requested. The Civil Court had ruled that there was no reason for a stop order to be issued.