Gujarat HC issues notice to civic body after house razed ‘without intimation’

When contacted, SMC officials told The Indian Express that they had stuck announcement connected the partition of the location a fewer days earlier carrying retired the demolition, insisting that the operation was done connected a “reserved plot”.

Sadhnaben Badgujar, who stays successful Vadod country with her hubby and 2 children, including a 7-year-old lad who is 96% disabled, alleged successful her application: “Without anterior announcement oregon intimation, SMC officials of Udhna portion – Executive Engineer S D Prajapati, Deputy Executive technologist P B Bhoya, Assistant Engineer Chandresh Patadiya, and 2 different officials, Fenil Mehta and Mayur Patel – had travel to the recently constructed location astatine Satyanarayannagar successful Vadod and demolished it connected October 1.”

In her petition, Badgujar further said that she had “carried retired operation connected 2 plots…bearing country of 634 quadrate feet and had spent Rs 9.5 lakh” connected it. She said she “had been mentally and physically breached by specified demolition and faced a immense fiscal loss.”

Besides demanding strict ineligible enactment against the officials concerned, Badgujar sought restoration of water, energy and drainage connection. She further said the SMC should physique a caller location astatine the aforesaid tract astatine its ain cost, adding the civic assemblage should compensate her with Rs 45 lakh.

Following the demolition, Badgujar claimed she had written to respective authorities earlier moving the court.

Her lawyer Nimish Kapadiya said, “The petition has been admitted by Gujarat HC and announcement issued to SMC officials…”According to the tribunal order, “Considering the submissions, contented Notice returnable connected 19.11.2024.”

Talking to The Indian Express, Executive Engineer Prajapati said, “Badgujar had carried retired the operation connected the reserved crippled astatine Vadod. We had stuck announcement connected a partition erstwhile the operation was successful advancement connected August 27. When our teams reached there, cipher was found. So, our radical stuck the announcement connected the wall. Despite that, they (the petitioner) carried retired operation activities. On October 1, we demolished the full operation to crushed zero level arsenic she failed to comply with the notice.”

He further said, “Vadod country was added to the SMC bounds successful 2006. The authorities authorities had, connected July 12, 2011, issued a notification connected gross survey fig 191, draught TP strategy fig 63 (Vadod)… On March 12, 2012, SMC had issued announcement to the past crippled possession holder, Dahya Ranchodbhai Patel, to vacate the premises arsenic it had been enactment nether reservation.”

Prajapati said that successful the caller notice, SMC had asked Badgujar to interaction the civic assemblage with indispensable documents. “Recently, the operation of the location connected 2 reserved plots of SMC got completed. In the adjacent fewer days, she was apt to displacement into the caller house. Before she could bash so, our teams went determination and demolished the full structure. We volition enactment our broadside earlier the HC with indispensable documents,” helium added.