HC raps GCC in action on illegal buildings
Chennai: Ticking off the
Greater Chennai Corporation
(GCC) for not doing enough against
illegal buildings
and
unauthorised constructions
in the city,
Madras high court
observed that this gave the impression that the GCC did not want to take action against the violators.
First bench of Chief Justice K R Shriram and Justice Mohammed Shaffiq also accused corporation commissioner J Kumaragurubaran of intentionally not providing adequate details of action taken against such violations. "Strangely and we would say intentionally, the commissioner has chosen not to give details of the notices issued, state whether those notices were responded to, state what action was taken thereafter, and state whether those unauthorised deviated buildings were demolished," the court said.
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"In paragraph 14 of the affidavit filed by the commissioner, it is only stated that the corporation also took further action and locked and sealed unauthorised/deviated buildings, and around 242 buildings were locked and sealed from Jan 1, 2022 to Feb 12, 2025, the court pointed out. "This is against 4,115 stop-work notices and 1,966 lock and seal notices. He has not explained why only a small number of buildings were locked and sealed," the bench said.
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The fact that they are going slow gives the impression that the corporation does not want to take action against the violators, the court added. Responding to the observations, counsel for the corporation submitted that he would file all the details and also make available for inspection the documents for the petitioner's advocate within a week.
Recording the submission, the court adjourned the hearing of the contempt petition moved by advocate N Rukmanganthan to June 3. According to the petitioner, he moved the present contempt petition as the corporation failed to comply with a court order dated April 8, 2022, and remove unauthorised construction in Zone-V of the corporation.
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