The Statesman               15.05.2013

North Corpn to take action against farmhouses

NEW DELHI, 15 MAY: The booking of farmhouses in North Delhi will be troublesome as the North Corporation is all set to take stern action on the court directive, against all the illegal farmhouses built under its jurisdiction.

According to a North Corporation senior official, the court has directed the civic body to seal the illegal farmhouses and disconnect the electricity and water supply within 24 hours. 

Following the court order, the North Corporation soon will run a drive including sealing and demolition, against such farmhouses in the city, wherein the people who have booked these farmhouses for functions will suffer.  "The order is applicable to all the farm houses in the jurisdiction of the three municipal corporations and action will be taken against those flouting norms and using their farm houses for organising marriages and other social functions," said Y S Mann, Director, Press and Information, of North and East Corporation. 

In 2008,  a notice had been issued to 15 farmhouses under the DMC act. Wherein two farm houses - JKS Lawns and Indraprasthan Lawns on Rohtak Road-- approached the Appellate Tribunal of MCD when the Corporation sealed them along with six other farm houses. 'They kept on running the farm houses illegally and are suspected to have connived with the officials for obtaining clearances of the civic body,' observed the court.