Court orders 'complete', not 'cosmetic' demolitions

  • 19/01/2006

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Delhi High Court has removed all confusion, if any, in the minds of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) authorities on how to go about demolition of unauthorised constructions in the city as well as the nature of violations they require to target. While laying down modalities for carrying out the drive and the nature of violations that the civic body should proceed against, a Division Bench comprising Justice Vijender and Justice Rekha Sharma said demolition should be complete and not "partial" or "cosmetic", as the local body was doing at present. The local body should raze illegal portions or properties completely. It should not cause only partial damage, leaving scope for the violators to repair them later and resume their business, the Bench said.