New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday slammed the officers of civic agencies across the country for looking the other way while private builders encroach government land, violate sanctioned building plans and ignore master plans.
Pointing to the nexus between builders and officials of local agencies, the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad said that ‘the officers of the (municipal) corporation are becoming rich overnight’.
The court said that ‘all the cities in the country have become sick (because of illegal construction) and of course Delhi is a leader in this area’.
The judges made these observation while dismissing a petition by Sanjay Adlakha, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, challenging an order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which it upheld the civic agency’s decision to demolish unauthorised construction in his building.
