Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Sunday Glitch...

This morning there was another feud between the ‘acting builder’ - [he is referred as an ‘acting builder’ because he is not going to build anything there, his business deal is to vacate the land and sell it to another builder] and the members of Kamaraj Nagar. On this fine Sunday morning the 'acting builder' started digging in Kamaraj Nagar’s playground area, probably without any appropriate permission. To hide this they had kept the main doors closed and locked. When a member came from his Sunday mass he kept knocking at the front gate. He noticed there is no watchman at the main gate and the doors were locked. When he inquired in the ‘acting builders’ office. He got this reply ‘we won’t open main gates for 2 wheeler's, the main gate is for four wheeler's only’.

Following this incident few of the members went to the police station to launch complaint against such hindrances the ‘acting builder’ is posing for the people. The police provided a very convenient reply, ‘Look at Campa Cola case, take stay order like them, why are you bothering us? We cannot do anything in this’. In the meanwhile the ‘acting builder’ had planned to remove the member’s vehicles by towing them out of his way without informing the members.

When the members returned to the nagar they saw the towing truck put up in place to remove the vehicles. But the vehicles had not been moved yet. The ‘acting builder’ filed a complaint saying that the members are causing hindrance and not allowing him to dig. When the police and the members spoke about the issue one member drew attention to a fact which drew my attention. The fact is that all the so called building related activity the builder tries to do is always done on Sundays. The SRA and the BMC won’t be working on a Sunday and the members can’t reach to the authorities and get orders to stop the activities the ‘acting builder’ is carrying on.

This Sunday the digging is going on in the playground. 

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Loopholes in the Law

In a corrupt society like ours, exploiting loopholes in the law is an everyday activity. The events happening in our Society is no exception to this. Our society's main gate which was used since past five decades was shutdown by the developer in early October 2013. 
There was no rhyme or reason for this action, just to impose hurdle and harass the remaining people to give up their right. Also to ensure that the main gate remains shut they piled up mud and stones in front of the gate. If anybody raised their voice against these puny actions, he/she would be labeled as 'opposing the development'. The cops easily back out from the complaints saying that this is a civil matter. The real reason is the money the developer has poured into this corrupt system.
November saw another such act of the builder. Wherein the builder is putting a partition within the nagar compound to hide all these still occupied houses. Most probably, this is to showcase to his potential buyer that the nagar is almost vacant and grab a good deal from the buyer. However because of this the people living here have to forego the main gate they have being using for more than four decades and use some other gate which is not convenient for their daily commute. But that is not important because the builder needs to have his profits. 

The developer would take every puny measures to force people to give in rather than taking rightful legal steps. There is so many loopholes in the law that such puny measures are almost done with the help of the law.
A partition is being built in front of these houses to hide these houses.