The owner of the house, Mr Kanwaljeet Singh Walia produced a letter from the Principal Secretary, Local Government directing the Executive Officer of the local civic body not to remove the structures as it was meant for “beautifying” the area. However, when the JCB moved towards House No 840, it took some time for the officials to decide whether to remove structures raised on both sides of road berm in front of the house. When the enforcement staff moved to a block of one kanal houses, it was observed that after the JCB’s uprooted unauthorised structures, the workers physically removed fencing and mangled iron grills and loaded them on to waiting trucks. Though ‘armed’ with the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to remove encroachments on public land yet dealing with the VIP violators still seems to be tough task for the enforcement staff of the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA).ĭuring the seventh day of the anti-encroachment drive in Phase 3B1 here, cases of the enforcement squad adopting double standards in removing the unauthorised structures raised by resourceful persons came to light.
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