HC refuses to entertain plea on Sahara Shahar land lease - Rediff

The Allahabad high court has refused to entertain a plea by Sahara India Commercial Corporation Limited against the Lucknow Municipal Corporations orders of September 2025 cancelling the land lease of its Sahara Shahar complex and directing that the land be vacated.The HCs Lucknow bench said the plea is not maintainable as a matter related to Sahara Shahr is already before the apex court, where Sahara has submitted an application and the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) too has also filed an objection.We find our hands tied in proceeding any further in the matter, a bench of Justices Rajan Roy and Manjive Shukla said as it passed the order on April 22, dismissing the petition filed by M/s Sahara India Commercial Corporation Limited.The petitioner had challenged a Lucknow Municipal Corporation order of September 8, 2025, cancelling the land lease granted to Sahara on October 22, 1994, and a further order of September 11, 2025, ordering the land to be vacated.The petitioner submitted that an arbitration order had been passed in its favour regarding this land on September 2, 2017, but the LMC had ignored that order and wrongly cancelled the lease, even though the company was willing to deposit the necessary money to extend the lease. The LMC opposed the petition. -- PTI