SURAT: Demolition staff of Limbayat zone of
Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) had to call in police help from
Khatodara police station to demolish an illegal structure in Bhathena area of the city.
According to the details of the incident that took place on Saturday, a team of 15 odd officials of SMC went to Bhathena where illegal construction of the first floor of a house in slum on Bhathena road was taking place.
"As this construction is exactly below the hi-tension line we had asked the owner not to construct first floor and even asked him to remove his construction of ground floor." said AM Dubey, Executive engineer SMC.
However he didn't heed to SMC and so team went there to demolish it.
"A large crowd was gathered by the owner named Zamir Biryaniwala and they started heckling the SMC staff." said Dubey and added, "We called in PCR mobile van of Khatodara police and under their protection all 400 odd sq feet of dangerous and illegal construction was removed."
The sources in SMC said that, Biryaniwala calls himself BJP worker and in fact he had called up some party supporters to scare away SMC staff. It is also alleged that one of the SMC staff was caught from collar and heckled but as police reached the spot, things were brought under control.
Officials say they have not received any recommendations from any
BJP leader till now.