The Times of India       05.10.2010

5 booked for dumping garbage in city

GURGAON: A day after Gurgaon's municipal commissioner sternly warned commercial establishments and residents not to dump garbage in the open, he finally cracked the whip.

On Monday, an official of MGF mall and an official of the Vatika building in sector 29 were booked by the police under section 188 of the IPC for dumping garbage in the open. Apart from the two officials, three other persons including the landowner on whose plot the garbage was dumped were also booked by the cops. Police have confiscated the two tractor trolleys in which the trash was being transported.

"We booked the landowner Jai Bhagwan, a resident of Nathupur village, and two of his workers, Basad Ali and Milan, both of who are from West Bengal, for transporting and dumping the garbage on the plot that belongs to Jai Bhagwan. We have also identified the people responsible for generating the garbage in the first place and have booked them under the same section," said a police official.

MCG officials said they have intensified their drive against people who dump garbage in the city. We have a modern solid waste treatment plant near Bandhwari where all the garbage from the city, including the HUDA sectors, is transported everyday. But private developers, who charge residents to collect their garbage, simply dump it wherever they want. They will be taken to task from now on," said an official.