Statesman News Service
MALDA, 27 OCT: Despite the injunction issued by the civic judge in Malda Court that ruled out all constructions along the Station Road, the English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) is allegedly continuing the road's expansion and building construction on its sides.
The civil judge (senior division), Mr Justice S Chattaraj asked the civic body to stop work on 22 October following a petition from the land owner Mr Gopinath Seth.
Mr Seth along with others claimed that the EBM had taken possession of the land illegally and had started construction without acquiring permission from the authorities.
The applicant also claimed that the EBM initially encroached a plot of land measuring 64 decimal (plot no 94) under Mahesmati mouja without informaing the authorities.
Later the land owner and his lawyer today sought administrative help to stop the construction work of the EBM.
The EBM vice-chairman, Mr Dulal Sarkar said: “We have been constructing a building on plot no 73, not on plot no. 94. The applicant is not the owner of the plots of land where the construction is being carried on”.
Mr Sarkar also said that the objective of the construction of a building was to rehabilitate some traders evicted from the roadside lately following the expansion of the Station road.
However, it was reported that the traders were evicted earlier but the EBM could not rehabilitate them.
Mr Bipul Datta, Mr Seth's lawyer, claimed that land records proved that plot no 73 was identified as a plot for cutting drains owned by the EBM but the construction was actually going on a private land identified as plot no 94.
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