Businessmen confident of winning legal fight with Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation.

Updated On, 18 April 2012: GURGAON: The year-old legal tussle between the industrialists of Udyog Vihar and the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) is set to resume this week, with the case slated to be brought before Punjab and Haryana high court in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Industry representatives from Gurgaon have challenged several clauses of the corporation's new estate management policy soon after it was first announced in January 2011, calling the existing property norms 'self-serving' and 'draconian'.

"In my opinion, the case will be resolved very soon now, in the next few months. And it will definitely be in favour of the industrialists," said B B Sharma, general secretary of the Chamber of Industries of Udyog Vihar, the body under whose name the litigation was filed. Sharma said both the HSIIDC and the Haryana government did their utmost to delay the proceedings when asked by the high court bench to file their reply.

"There were so many delays. And in the previous hearing, the HSIIDC finally filed a long-winded reply, which didn't make any substantial legal point at all. There was no mention of leasing and transfer of property norms," said Sharma. Industry owners in Udyog Vihar have to get permission from the HSIIDC before leasing out their 'fully owned' plots, and are required to pay a leasing fee to the corporation, a protocol that still rankles many.We just want full ownership of our plots, as per the original agreements," said H R Vaish, president of the chamber.