MCD Commissioner summoned for not taking action on tainted officials

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New Delhi, Jan 12 (UNI) The Delhi High today summond MCD Commissioner A K Nigam to be present in the court on January 17 to explain the reasons for not initiating action against three officials, who allegedly had accepted Rs 2.5 lakh as bribe despite a court order on November 17.

A division bench of Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Rekha Sharma asked Mr Nigam to be personally present during the hearing for not taking disciplinary action against Sharma, Bhardwaj (both Junior Engineers) and Chandiram(beldar) who allegedly accepted bribe from Vinod Bajwa resident of Subhash Nagar for not demolising his illegal building.

On November 17, appearing before the High Court, Bajwa had alleged that he had paid Rs 2.5 lakh as bribe to two Junior Engineers and one class-IV employee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to save his building from demolition in West Delhi.

Bajwa, the resident of 11/1 Subhash Nagar near Rajouri Garden, said that he had allegedly paid the bribe to the MCD officials named as Sharma, Bhardwaj and Chandiram to save his building.

The High Court had asked the MCD to initiate action against the officials.

However, the MCD today submitted that the matter had been referred to the police for investigation.

On November 14, the High Court had directed the MCD authorities not to demolish the building, which was claimed to have been constructed before January 1, 2006.

The court had asked the MCD to file a reply to the petition filed by its owner claiming the action of the authorities as illegal and unauthorised.

Vinod's mother Rekha Bajwa, alleged that the MCD authorities had demolished about 70 per cent of the building which was constructed much before the enactment of the law by the Parliament.

UNI

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