The Madras High Court has summoned the Commissioner of Chennai Corporation in a matter of non-compliance of the order passed by the Secretary, Housing and Urban Development Department by a property owner at Mogappair in the city.
A division bench, comprising Justice Satish K. Agnihotri and Justice P. Devadass, passed orders on a petition filed by one L.G. Ravi and directed the Commissioner, Corporation of Chennai to be present on February 4 with the action taken report.
The matter relates to deviations in buildings constructed in Plot Nos 67 and 71 of the adjacent building of the petitioner where sealing and de-sealing took place on court orders from time to time.
The deviators had filed an appeal before the Appellate Authority (the Secretary, Housing and Urban Development Department), who allowed it and passed an order directing them to apply for a fresh planning permission application to Corporation of Chennai on April 25 lastr. The authority also directed them to demolish the unauthorized constructions within six months from the above date.
Being an adjacent resident, the petitioner again approached the RTI and got a reply that the order passed by the Appellate authority was not implemented by the deviators and filed the present petition.
The petitioner submitted that the deviators ought to have demolished the unauthorized constructions before the stipulated time on October 24 last. The petitioner said the deviators had not even obtained the revised plan said authorities ought not to have allowed them to flout the orders passed by the Appellate Authority.
The petitioner prayed the Court to direct the Commissioner, Corporation of Chennai, to initiate action against them for not complying with the orders of the Appellate authority.
