No headway into probe on illegal buildings

Bathinda, June 25

The enquiry into illegal buildings headed by SDM Sakshi Sawhney has stopped midway.

Ved Parkash Gupta, general secretary of NGO Punjab Human Rights Committee, had lodged a complaint over illegal buildings and SDM Sakshi Sahwney had initiated a probe.

The SDM had asked Ved Parkash Gupta to submit his statement, which was done on May 26.

Thereafter, the SDM had requested the Deputy Commissioner to shift the inquiry to the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation Bathinda (MCB).

Ved Parkash Gupta has written a letter to Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to order the district administration to take the inquiry to its logical end soon.

Deputy Commissioner Diprava Lakra said he had forwarded the inquiry to MCB Commissioner Sanyam Aggarwal. I spoke with him over the issue. Aggarwal said there were many illegal buildings in the city. In the coming days, a joint exercise against the illegal buildings would be started by MCB.”

Gupta, in his complaint, had stated that hundreds of illegal buildings had been constructed in the city in connivance with some corrupt officers of the civic body.

He had also stated that the construction of two illegal buildings had direct connection with a senior official of the MCB.

The first building is a two-storey structure on Mall Road opposite Hanuman Chowk and the second was in Jain Street. — TNS