Delhiites whose properties were razed by MCD during last years High Court-ordered demolition drive, has a fresh shock coming their way.
MCD plans to slap them with massive property tax bills including the costs incurred by the civic body in bringing down the illegal structures.
Our demolition squads spent hours breaking down unauthorised constructions. We deployed heavy machinery. Thousands of people whose properties were demolished are yet to pay us for all this. We will now add the demolition charges to their property tax bills, MCD commissioner K S Mehra told Hindustan Times.
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A Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) official told the BBC that the officers were moved following a court order.
Last week, the Delhi High Court ordered the MCD to take action against employees guilty of malpractice.
In November, the court ordered the demolition of 18,000 illegal structures across Delhi.
More than 1,500 colonies in the capital have been defined as illegal and many do not even have legal electricity connection or water supplies.
The MCD's demolition drive has been strongly resisted by the owners of such buildings who have resorted to street protests.
The Delhi High Court launched a scathing attack on the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for the way it has been handling demolitions of illegal structures.
Earlier on Wednesday, the MCD had filed its progress report in the High Court.
The civic body had even filed an affidavit in the court admitting that there are 30 lakh constructions with minor or major violations.
'Cosmetic' measures?
But the court said that the demolition drive seems to be purely cosmetic and observed that VIPs who own illegal properties are being let off the hook.
After a critical review of the demolition drive so far, the
MCD bulldozers hit Chandni Chowk
UNAUTHORISED constructions in Chandni Chowk had to face MCD’s hammer once more on Wednesday. The MCD and a force of the Delhi Police sealed off the area from Town Hall gate to Water Fountain in Chandni Chowk. As curious onlookers watched, four properties were completely demolished above the Chabutras, and one property was partly demolished.
Deputy Commissioner, Central Zone, S.K. Mehrotra, said that the MCD had actually targeted 10 properties for action. But, three property-owners got stay orders from the High Court stopping the MCD from demolishing.
Today’s action costituted Phase four of the MCD’s ongoing
Terming as insensitive the court-ordered demolition of constructions along the banks of Yamuna, leaders of the Hindu and Sikh communities on Thursday announced they would re-build places of worship damaged in the drive.
The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee will bear the cost of reconstruction of temples damaged in the drive, while the Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti (ABSS) will rebuild gurdwaras, DSGMC President Paramjit Singh Sarna said here.
Flanked by ABSS General Secretary Swami Hansdass, Sarna said the DSGMC and the ABSS will jointly re-build mosques and other places of worship damaged in the drive.
The Delhi government Wednesday clarified that the citys lieutenant governor does not intend to overturn a court directive for the demolition of illegal constructions in the sprawling urban villages of the capital.
The clarification came in a submission to the Delhi High Court, which had been upset by Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khannas Apr 26 order seeking detailed information in the wake of a court directive for the demolition of illegally constructed properties in Delhi.
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam, representing the Delhi government, assured a High Court bench Wednesday that Khanna had merely sought information from government officials about the properties
