Hyderabad: Nearly 35 years after entering the agreement to dredge several sites in Hussainsagar, the Metropolitan Development Authority of Hyderabad (HMDA) and dredging Corporation of India (DCI) are still struggling in court for payment.
This case is now in the Telangana High Court who took heard on Thursday.
This dispute was more than nearly Rs 1 Crore in the allegations of HMDA (later Huda) refused to pay the DCI contracted in December 1986 to dredge Husshainsar at the Purnima Buddhist project and Sanjeevaiah Park.
The work will be completed in December 1987, but finally finished in 1989.
HMDA also promised in writing that the contract would be extended further, but not.
When DCI waits with a crew because of the exposure to expansion, he claims the idle time for the extended waiting period too.
HMDA has refused to take attention to this because the Idling problem is not in it in writing.
Arbitrator’s appointment in 1993 by DCI – four years after the contract period ended – also not permitted under the law, claiming advice HMDA Y Rama Rao.
This arbitrator ruled in supporting DCI after 10 years in 2003.
But with HMDA not gardening, the same year DCI dragged him to a civil court that was re-profitable after almost 15 years on November 22, 2018.
It was finally challenged by HMDA after 371 days in the High Court In March 2020.
But this case was left hanging again as a pandemic struck.
On Thursday, after the case came to hear before the acting bench Chief Justice M S Ramachandra Rao and Justice T Vinod Kumar, DCI challenged the elimination of the delay of 371 days in the appeal of HMDA and looked for time to apply for his counter.
HC gave him two weeks to register it and delay this case.