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Illegal hoardings land organisers in the soup

MC staff removes illegal hoardings installed on the Madhya Marg of the event of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, which is to be held on November 26 in Sector 5, parade ground, Panchkula. Tribune Photo Manoj Mahajan

Rajinder Nagarkoti

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 24

Organisers of a "mahasatsang" by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, scheduled for November 26 at Parade Ground, Sector 5, Panchkula, have landed themselves in trouble over the installation of illegal hoardings in Chandigarh.

The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today wrote to the UT police for the registration of an FIR against the organisers for allegedly using a fake permission letter to install the hoardings for the programme in various parts of the city.

MC Additional Commissioner Sarita Malik said the organisers had installed hoardings at V1, V2 and V3 roads in Chandigarh, which was not allowed. "Moreover, they had used a fake permission letter to install these hoardings. After the matter came to our notice, we wrote to the UT police for the registration of an FIR against the organisers for using the fake permission letter," she said.

The MC today asked teams of the enforcement wing to remove these hoardings from city roads.

Ravi Kant Malik, one of the organisers whose mobile number was displayed on the hoardings, said the permission letter was issued by the MC office. He said as he was not aware about any fake letter, he did not want to comment further on the issue.

A senior MC official said the dispatch number on the fake permission letter was the same which was used by the MC for inter-departmental correspondence for allotting space to the old scooter market in Sector 41. Besides, the endorsement number on the fake letter was used for the leave application of an MC employee. Signatures of MC officials were also fake on this letter. Culprits had smartly used these numbers to make it appear like a genuine one but the permission letter was fake, the official said.

“In the fake letter, the permission to install hoardings in all roundabouts of the city was from November 24 to 26,” the official said.

According to sources, Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will also attend the function in which spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living, will address his followers.