The Hindu 29.07.2013
Coimbatore Corporation demolishes dilapidated building
‘Owners failed to respond to notice’
The Coimbatore Corporation on the intervening night of
Friday-Saturday demolished more-than-a-century-old building in
Sukrawarpet.
According to officials in the civic
body, they began the demolition process around 11 p.m. Friday and
completed the task by 5 a.m. Saturday.
This was based on an order Corporation Commissioner G. Latha issued a couple of days ago.
Earthmovers
Two
earthmovers, as many lorries and around 20 men were involved in the
operations. The sources said that the civic body decided to pull down
the building after the owners Muruganandam and Kesavaraj failed to
respond to notice.
The civic body had a few months
ago asked the owners to bring down the structure as it posed a threat to
road users at the busy Mill Road – Mettupalayam Road junction. The
owners did not react, though the notice asked them to act within 24
hours.
The sources said that the civic body issued
the notice after a wall on the ground floor of the ground-plus-first
floor structure collapsed around six months ago. A few days ago, a
portion of another wall collapsed forcing the Corporation to act at the
earliest.
Demolition cost
Asked
if the civic body would recover the cost from the owners, the officials
said that it was for Ms. Latha and Deputy Commissioner S. Sivarasu to
decide on the issue.
The owners failed to respond to notice issued by Corporation.