Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V Okay Saxena has ordered the suspension of an unspecified variety of Delhi Improvement Authority (DDA) staff in reference to the re-encroachment of the authority’s land close to Pusta Street, from Mayur Vihar Part-I to NH-24.
The suspended personnel embrace assistant engineers and junior engineers tasked with overseeing the Mayur Nature Park venture, with the L-G’s workplace claiming that “an intensive investigation will probably be carried out to discover potential legal conspiracy involving DDA personnel and exterior events”, a press assertion from the L-G’s workplace stated on Tuesday.
The land in query types a part of the Yamuna floodplain, the place the Mayur Nature Park venture is being applied. In June 2024, practically 390 hectares of land had been reclaimed in a court- and Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal-monitored drive. That operation had cleared round 6,000 unlawful buildings, 4 nurseries, 250 hectares of cultivation, and 40 borewells. Regardless of this, re-encroachments had been noticed, with officers allegedly permitting them.
The L-G additionally directed that any future cases of recent encroachment or re-encroachment of DDA land will appeal to legal expenses in opposition to accountable officers, along with suspension and departmental inquiry, in a “transfer aimed toward controlling encroachment of DDA land in collusion with authorities officers”, the assertion famous.
An FIR will probably be filed below related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, together with sections 198, 223, 316, and 318, and Part 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. A departmental inquiry has additionally been initiated, in response to a press release from the L-G’s workplace. The L-G has directed the DDA vice-chairman to submit a complete report on the inquiry and motion taken inside seven days.
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