Chandigarh, July 12 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed a plea from a Mohali resident who failed to deposit the requisite amount after successfully winning the bid in an auction of a plot in Sector 65, Mohali.

The petitioner, Iqbal Singh, had approached the HC demanding that the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) be directed to remove or relocate the overhead high-voltage electricity wires and to remove the unauthorised car shed/structure obstructing the petitioner's allotted residential plot. A further direction was sought to restrain GMADA from re-auctioning the disputed plot or creating any third-party rights.

The petitioner submitted that he had participated in the e-auction of the residential plot in S...