The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has told the Rajasthan High Court that 583 structures across five colonies in the Prithviraj Nagar (PRN) area — Pitambar Nagar Extension, Shakti Nagar, Baba Ramdev Nagar, Gajsinghpura and Janaki Vihar — count as encroachment on government and road land. The breakdown JDA placed on record includes 271 residential houses, 237 shops, 49 boundary walls, 18 warehouses, 3 hotels, 2 schools, a marriage hall, a temple and a library.
The dispute traces back to 25 August 2026, when JDA issued notices to 429 house and shop owners in PRN (South) zones 18 and 19, saying its survey had found unauthorised construction on government land and land reserved for roads. The High Court directed that all 429 owners be served notice both personally and by posting at their properties, and that they respond through their advocates.
On 25 September 2026, a division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay K. Agarwal and Justice Indrajit Singh directed JDA to proceed with hearings under Section 72 of the JDA Act, 1982 for the 583 identified structures and the 429 notice recipients, while following due process and giving affected owners a proper hearing before any action.
Affected owners are disputing the encroachment tag. They say they bought their plots through lease agreements from housing societies and that 60-70 percent of them paid regularisation charges (niyaman shulk) and development charges (vikas shulk) to the authorities over the years. Their argument, as reported, is straightforward: if the government collected development and regularisation fees for these plots, how can the same land now be called an encroachment? They also contend that the government never formally acquired this land from its original owners or paid compensation for it.
For anyone who owns, is buying, or is considering buying a plot in Prithviraj Nagar or a similarly developed colony, this case is a stark illustration of a risk that isn't visible on the surface. A registered lease from a housing society, a receipt for a regularisation or development fee, or years of unchallenged possession do not, by themselves, establish that a plot sits on land the government recognises as legally allotted. JDA and the revenue department maintain separate records of who the land legally belongs to, and a gap between those records and what a buyer is shown can surface years later as an encroachment notice — with the financial loss falling on whoever owns the property at that point, not on the society or agent who originally sold it.
With the High Court now pushing JDA to move ahead with Section 72 hearings, owners in these five colonies need to respond to any notice they receive and attend the hearing with every document they have — lease deed, fee receipts, layout plan — rather than assume payment of past charges settles the matter on its own.
If you are evaluating a plot or house in Prithviraj Nagar, or any colony with a similar history of society-sold leases and regularisation payments, Haqdar can help you check the land's actual revenue and JDA records before you commit any money.