chandigarh the punjab and haryana high court has issued notice to the central government ut administration home secretary ut adviser chandigarh housing board chb chairman and the cbi on a public interest litigation pil challenging the conversion rates from leasehold to freehold and the tatkal servicethe pil filed by pravasi bhalai sangathan sought a cbi inquiry into the matter alleging huge level of corruption is going in the name of tatkal service and needbased changes the matter would come up for hearing on july 31senior advocates m l saggar and a p s shergill argued that the tatkal scheme was a tool for corruption and should be struck down the pil alleged the authorities were behaving like a private real estate company whose sole objective was to make money and profit it was argued tatkal fee from rs 20000 to rs 50000 for various categories ews lig mig hig was not only uncalled for but against the basic principles of the law laid down in this regard the tatkal scheme is also against the basic principle of law as chandigarh housing board chb could not introduce a fresh categorization within an existing categorization contrary to the clearcut well laid down notification of 1996 needbased changes the pil allegedenhancing the old conversion fee for each dwelling unit was also challenged it was argued that this was done in order to generate money by creating problems for allottees having leasehold and freehold property the rise from rs 6000 to rs 10000 per dwelling unit to nearly rs 330 lakh was not legally tenable and arbitrary in the eyes of law the pil saidthe lawyers argued that application form fee for all purposes had been increased from rs 25 to 250 per application the pil demanded the cbi register cases under the prevention of corruption act against the officials who deliberately violated the implementation of the needbased changes