Police called in to carry out demolition of illegal constructions in Katargam

Officials of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) had to call police to carry out their function of demolition of illegal construction in Katargam area of the city. Officials had to deal with tricky situation in Dindoli area of the city too, where to stop demolition of illegal structure, a child was made to lie down in front if JCB machine. However officials physically removed the child from the way to complete their work.
As the festive season is fast approaching, in certain parts of the city, number of illegal constructions are being erected by some elements.
In Prabhunagar society of Katargam, builder and some of his associates, who had constructed 1200 sq feet of illegal construction started objecting to the demolition work. SMC had issued notices to the owner Mahendra Patel of Prabhunagar to stop unauthorized construction but he didn't heed to SMC notice.
As a result, officials of Katargam zone went to remove illegal structure. As officials were doing their job, Patel and his men created physical barrier and stopped officials. Police was called in and in the presence of police demolition was carried out.
Similarly a resident, tried stopping the demolition in RD Nagar of Limbayat by placing his child on the JCB machine. He was constructing illegal structure on common plot. However as local residents had demanded the removal of illegal construction, officials physically removed the child and carried out the work.
In both the cases SMC collected administrative charges from the owners of the plots where illegal constructions had come up.