On 8th December, High Court Justice Ram Mohan Reddy ordered BBMP to raze a portion of a five-storey apartment complex situated on Richmond Road that violated BBMP building bye laws.
Disturbed by their adjacent building’s violation of the sanctioned plan, Rustumji Apartment Owners’ Association brought the matter to the High Court’s attention, urging the Court to take necessary action.
The Karnataka High Court in turn instructed BBMP to immediately demolish the unauthorized parts of this apartment complex. The demolition was being actively pursued but was eventually aborted on receiving a stay order from the High Court. This happened after the building owner contended that she ‘was never given an opportunity to be heard’.
Apartment residents believe that the city is packed with many more of such illegally constructed buildings and demand that they be demolished at the earliest.
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