When they were later canceled as political winds shifted, DLF faced lawsuits from buyers.
Singh s refusal to cut quality corners ensured that DLF could get premium prices for its properties.
Gurgaon is DLF and vice versa, says Akshaya Kumar, chief executive of property consultants Colliers International (India).
Waning popularity also led to title sponsor DLF pulling out of the league in August.
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Now, with his son, Rajiv, at the day-to-day helm of the company, Singh aims for DLF to go national.
As Bhasin tells it, GE was brave to open its pilot back office at DLF Corporate Park in 1997.
DLF, India's largest real estate company, is still quoting a third below its July 2007 listing price.
The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also sought a probe into Mr Vadra's business links with DLF.
It s getting there: DLF has 100 million square feet under development in residential, commercial and retail projects all over the country.
His showpiece: a busy, 10-mile-wide township called DLF City in Gurgaon, situated south of Delhi, in the neighboring state of Haryana.
The watchdog cites other alleged transgressions by DLF, including drafting one-sided sales agreements and changing the dimensions of the project midway.
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Other developers have rushed to cash in on Gurgaon s boom, but none match DLF in size or the goodwill it enjoys as the first-comer.
Today he presides over closely held DLF group, India s largest real estate developer with an estimated land bank of 3, 000 acres in prime city locations.
The Singhs are willing to pay the top price at any land auction and team up with local developers in cities where DLF is a newcomer.
But Singh says that observing Welch s toughness with GE s managers in close quarters provided a model for running DLF: Think big and be a sector leader.
At a time when the industry practice was to sell and not lease, DLF offered long-term leases, which suited companies that didn t want to load assets on their books.
But he had the gumption to go relentlessly after it, says Deepak Parekh, chairman of home mortgage company HDFC, which started lending to DLF early in its expansion drive.
Both Mr Vadra and the company, DLF, denied the charges.
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Pramod Bhasin, president and chief executive of leading outsourcing firm Genpact, calls DLF Corporate Park, the first office tower Singh built in Gurgaon, the birthplace of India s business-process outsourcing industry.
While news reports have suggested that the ruling against DLF will open the door for a raft of similar litigations against other developers, that may be overstating the case.
Leading Mumbai architect Hafeez Contractor, who has designed several signature buildings for the group, including DLF Center, the corporate headquarters in downtown Delhi, maintains that DLF always aims for the very best from day one.
Cashing in on India s mall boom, DLF is planning a massive retail rollout: Over the next five years 100 malls will be built in 60 cities, including a 4-million-square-foot Mall of India, the country s biggest, in Gurgaon.
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