Chandigarh, March 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) cannot impose preferential location charges on transferees who purchased land from original allottees under the 2013 land pooling policy.

Allowing a bunch of 118 petitions filed by transferees, the HC bench of justices Sureshwar Thakur and Vikas Suri stated that a perusal of the land pooling policy issued by the Punjab government, vide notification dated June 19, 2013, and the brochure of the allotment scheme floated for Sector 88-89, Mohali, by the government and other respondents, made it clear that there was no such condition of charging "any extra amount" on account of preferred location charges.

Under its 20...