MC ASKS JAYPEE TO HAND OVER WASTE MGMT PLANT TODAY
CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has made a final push to control the city’s controversial waste management project, asking Jaypee, the firm controlling the city’s Dadumajra garbage processing plant, to hand over the plant by Friday evening.
After the MC general house terminated Jaypee’s contract the civic body issued a termination noticeonmarch5 askingthefirm to hand over the plant within a week.
The district courts, however, after being approached by Jaypee, stayed the order on March 12, following which MC initiated the action. “The interim stay granted by the court was from March 12 to June 12. Since the order passed was for definite period which has expired and there is no order of stay by any court of law, now, the impugned order dated March 5 passed by MC stands active,” read a letter issued by MC commissioner KK Yadav.
Jaypee had been given time in between to appoint an arbitrator, he said. “After consulting with the legal team we have decided to take over. We have given the firm time till Friday 5pm to hand it over. In case the firm fails (to do so), MC will take over the plant on its own and entertain no further claims by the firm,” Yadav added.
MC had also deployed a surveillance team at the plant to thwart any attempts by the firm’s officials to remove anything from the premises.
BRANDISHED PISTOLS
They then brandished pistols, but after a heated exchange of words with the policemen put down their weapons on the road and surrendered.
Onepistolwithtwomagazines, each with seven live cartridges of .32 bore, were recovered from Shiva and one pistol with two magazines each with seven live cartridges from Lucky.
Apart from acquiring weapons, Shiva had also provided shelter to Karan, one of the gunmen who had been arrested. Lucky’s role so far is not clear.
Five persons had fired around
DEEPAK’S DISCLOSURE LED TO SAHAB’S ARREST
Deepak, who was brought on production warrants from Ambala to Chandigarh, told police during interrogation that he had provided weapons to the gunmen for the Sector 33 shootout.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Jagadale said, “Deepu had arranged for the weapons for the shooters. He had asked two of his men, Gurpreet, alias Goldy, and Sunny Ghumana, to take the weapons from one Sahab Singh, alias Sabha, and provide the same to the shooters.”
Sahab was arrested after police raids in Banur on Thursday. During interrogations, he confessed to having hidden a pistol and ammunition in the forest area in Sector 50 and in front of the Gaushala in Sector 45, Chandigarh.
He had also given two pistols and some cartridges to Gurpreet, alias Goldy, and Sunny Ghumana.till reports last came in, police had recovered one pistol along with two magazine and 14 live cartridges of .9mm.