The Gautam Chatterjee committee submitted its 20-page report to the principal secretary of the revenue department Manukumar Srivastava.
Congress, which owns AJL and the now-defunct National Herald newspaper, was constructing a commercial building on a plot of 3,479 sq m in suburban Bandra, off the western Express Highway, instead of building a research centre dedicated to Jawaharlal Nehru for which it had been allotted the plot.
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Mumbai BJP secretary Vivekananda Gupta alleged that there
was a violation of Maharashtra Land Revenue Code in the allotment and the use of the land given to AJL.
He termed the ongoing construction on the Bandra plot as mostly commercial in nature and illegal.
He demanded that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) should immediately issue stop-work notice, and the government should take the land back.
"Open spaces belong to the public at large. But there is restricted entry to the public and unrestricted entry to those who have paid exorbitant fees as membership," he said.
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