# Supreme Court sets two week deadline for Jaipur tribunal appeals 2026-08-06T07:22:53+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk The Supreme Court has given the Jaipur Development Appellate Tribunal a strict fortnight to clear its full backlog of appeals over alleged illegal construction and encroachment, according to Deccan Herald, and made the tribunal's presiding officer personally answerable for meeting that deadline. The instruction, issued on 5 August, responds to complaints that stay orders from the tribunal had stalled enforcement action pursued by the Jaipur Development Authority. The civic body contends that plots reserved for farming or open space were built over, and that a resort and several commercial complexes went up without the necessary clearances. Officials had begun tearing down and sealing some of these structures, only for the people affected to win temporary protection from the same tribunal, prompting the top court's push for faster hearings. Whether each structure is genuinely unauthorised, and which permissions were actually issued, is still for the tribunal to work out. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Setting a hard cutoff for hearings could keep temporary stays from indefinitely blocking enforcement, and naming a specific official as answerable adds real teeth to that push for speed. Yet each disputed building still needs its own hearing on the facts, since simply casting the matter as the development authority versus rule breakers would prejudge cases the tribunal has not yet heard. Compressing the timetable also has to leave room for genuine defences to be argued rather than rushed past. Whether the tribunal resolves the backlog of appeals inside the two-week window the court has set is the next measurable step. ## Coverage - www.deccanherald.com Tags: Jaipur Development Authority, Supreme Court of India Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/two-weeks-to-decide-sc-cracks-whip-on-jaipur-tribunal-over-illegal-construction-appeals/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/two-weeks-to-decide-sc-cracks-whip-on-jaipur-tribunal-over-illegal-construction-appeals/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.