Monday, November 06, 2006

Illegal petrol bunk demolished


By CT reporter
MANGALORE : A petol bunk and a commercial building in front of the KPT at Kadri in the city was recently bulldozed under the supervision of a team of officials led by the tahsildar.
In fact the tahsildar had ordered a year ago to vacate the illegal construction.This building had been declared illegal ten yeara go itself, following a petition in the court.
A certain Dulsin D’Souza had constructed the service station and commercial complex in the about ten cents land in survey no 10 266/3 A1 and had rented it out.
In the year 1997, few members of the general public including Satish Shetty had appealed to the city corporation, highway authority, tahsildar and deputy commissioner seeking to evict the construction. The corporation on its part shrugged off its responsibility by merely stating that raising any construction within the the 75 meter radius of the highway was illegal.
In the meantime, the encroacher D’Souza had appealed to the tahsildar requesting to lease out the land to him for 30 years. Even the Nattional Highway Authority had refused to issue a no-objection certificate to the building following which the countdown had begun for the demolition of the illegal structure.
Though the eviction order was issued on 16.10.2005, the same was executed exactly after one year, recently.

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