Media Release

Mangaluru, Aug 3: Supreme Court of India in its judgment upheld the building licence given to Land Trades Builders & Developers’ prestigious residential project ‘Solitaire’ by Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC).

Aggrieved by the city corporation’s proposal for widening of one of the approach roads to Solitaire, some residents of the locality had approached the high court with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the building licence given by MCC for Solitaire. After listening to the arguments of all parties, the high court had upheld the building licence given to Solitaire as legitimate and concurred with MCC’s decision to give the licence.

After that, the petitioners had appealed the high court order before the Supreme Court. Now in its order dated July 19, the Supreme Court too has dismissed the PIL and upheld the legality of building licence given by MCC for Solitaire. The Supreme Court has also directed the MCC to issue completion certificate for ‘Solitaire’ expeditiously in accordance with law. In the same order, the court has also vacated its status quo on road widening by MCC of the approach road to Solitaire. Accepting the advice of the judges to address the grievances of the petitioners, the city corporation has undertaken before the Supreme Court vide written affidavit to construct a retention wall for protecting the structures of three of the petitioners at the time of road widening. With this, all the legal hurdles with regard to road widening have been overcome.

“Solitaire is a prestigious project where we have tried to set a new benchmark for excellence. Litigation regarding this project was pending before the courts for a long time. Now we are glad that our building licence for Solitaire has been legally validated by the highest court in the land,” said K Shrinath Hebbar, proprietor of Land Trades. “I am grateful to our customers and associates who have reposed their complete faith in me during this period,” he said.

Solitaire is situated at the elite Hat Hill locality of Mangaluru, lending a commanding view of the Arabian Sea. With 32 floors it is one of the tallest residential structures of Mangalore. It features 144 homes available in 2BHK / 3BHK apartments and 4BHK / 5BHK duplexes with wide array of luxurious facilities like club house with swimming pool, children’s play area, indoor games room, snookers and table tennis, meditation room, yoga room, jacuzzi, sauna and steam room.

Solitaire is a green-friendly project with features like solar energy, rain water harvesting, waste segregation facility and in-house sewage treatment and recycle plant. Solitaire lives up to Land Trades reputation for timely completion of the project delivering optimum quality using premium inputs and branded hi-end products.

All buildings of Land Trades including Solitaire are constructed in full compliance of the rules and regulations in force. Land Trades is an ISO 9000:2015 firm enjoying ‘DA2’ Real Estate Developer Rating from CRISIL.