JAMMU, Dec 31: Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has issued demolition notice to former Revenue Minister, Raman Bhalla under J&K Control of Building Operations Act but the Special Tribunal has ordered status-quo with the direction to the former Minister not to carry out any further construction in violation of the order and provisions of Control of Building Operations Act and matter will be listed again on 19th January 2016.
J&K High Court had directed the l Commissioner JMC, Jammu to take action as warranted under law, the Jammu Municipal Corporation issued demolition notice to the former Revenue Minister on December 21, 2015 where JMC directed Raman Bhalla to demolish 1724 sq ft illegal construction at first floor and 1134 sq ft at ground floor of his house at Deeli within five days from the date of serving of the notice.
In the appeal, Raman Bhalla has submitted that JMC has no authority to demolish the structure as it never objected to the construction and in fact supervised the same on daily basis and the construction was raised in accordance with the approved site plan and the construction was completed way back in the year 2013 as per sanctioned plan and no fresh construction has been undertaken.
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