new delhi slamming the company that operates the delhigurgaon expressway for serious financial fraud and failure to improve services at the 32lane toll plaza the highways authority has issued an order terminating its deal with the concessionaire the order dated february 18 was issued as per a delhi high court directive to the national highways authority of india nhai its fate will be decided by the court which takes up the hearing on march 1 the nhai has accused the concessionaire delhigurgaon super connectivity ltd of fraud in the form of refinancing the project without getting its approval the nhai had issued a preliminary termination notice to the concessionaire on december 7 2011 and the private player had challenged this in the hc later the nhai had in its affidavit in court stated that it wanted to scrap the deal on february 6 the court had asked the nhai to send the termination order within three days however it was issued 12 days later the order came following clearance by the highway secretary and acting nhai chairman a k upadhyaya after he had talked to highways minister c p joshiwill work with nhai to resolve issues reacting to the nhai order the dgscl said we are aware that the nhai had to issue a termination notice as per the directives of the hc and that the nhai has been restrained by the hc from taking further action till the next hearing on march 1 however we continue to work closely with the authorities to resolve outstanding issuesterms of discord nhai serves order scrapping its deal with concessionaire dgscl to operate the delhigurgaon expresswayorder blames developer on 3 counts 1 dgscl changed lenders twice to raise loan of rs 1597 crore in second instance it didnt seek nhais permission 2 dgscl failed to expand the 32lane toll plaza a major traffic bottleneck 3 it did not finalize a plan to maintain and operate the 277km expressway termination subject to court rulingcompany charged with eway fraud new delhi the highways authority has issued an order terminating its deal with the company that operates the delhigurgaon expressway for serious financial fraud and failure to improve services the ministry felt any delay in issuing the order would adversely affect the authority and public at large the nhai has been facing the heat due to deteriorating quality of service on this tolled road though officials said the termination order was delayed as upadhaya discussed the issue with the minister nhais legal counsel had opined that delaying or not issuing the order would put the authority in an awkward situation after being told by the court to do sothe termination order that runs to a dozen pages largely blames the developer on three grounds first the developer allegedly changed lenders twice in the latest instance it didnt get nhais permission for raising a loan of rs 1597 crore the company used a conditional no objection certificate issued by the nhai way back in 2009 for later