Senior deputy mayor, MCG officials booked

GURGAON: The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has lodged an FIR against the senior deputy mayor — the alleged owner of the four-storey building that was recently demolished — and against its own officials.

While the officials have been booked for framing incorrect records, the property owners have been booked for conspiring with the officials to get the residential building plans sanctioned.

The FIR has also been lodged against Parveen Raghav, then junior engineer and Bhopal Singh, then architectural engineer for buildings, for violating the government’s rehabilitation scheme.

In his recent letter to the police commissioner, MCG commissioner Praveen Kumar mentioned the violations and stated that the officials had not acted according to their competency.

On February 28, MCG’s enforcement team had razed the building, owned by relatives of senior deputy mayor Yashpal Batra. The property is located on Railway Road near New Colony.

“We had asked the police commissioner to lodge an FIR against the property owners and

SOURCES TOLD HT THAT SENIOR DEPUTY MAYOR YASHPAL BATRA’S WIFE, MADHU BATRA, ALSO OWNS STAKE IN THE BUILDING

the officials, who helped in regularizing the property and passed its blue prints,” said Kumar.

According to the MCG, while the building was found illegally divided into 12 parts, it also violated the two-and-half floors policy.

Sources have told HT, Batra’s wife Madhu Batra is also one of the five owners of the building.

Although denying his direct ownership, Batra claimed that the demolition was a part of political vendetta against him.

“The demolition is a personal and political attack on me. However the building didn’t belong to me, rather it was owned by close relatives,” said Yashpal Batra, senior deputy mayor, MCG.

However, Kumar has denied any political agenda saying, “The corporation has been carrying such drives for more than two months. The demolition was a part of the encroachment-free Gurgaon drive.”