Gurugram admin to crack down on realtors behind illegal colonies

In the wake of complaints against illegal colonisers duping people of their hard-earned money the District administration said an FIR will be lodged against builders who promote unauthorised colony in Gurugram.

District town and country planning (enforcement) wing will keep a tab on illegal constructions and colonies. Also, the expense of the demolition drive will be charged from the colonizers.

Earlier in June the DTCP had recommended an FIR against 11 persons for carving out an illegal colony in Pataudi area. The team had razed the colony on April 30, demolishing 54 structures.

"All 11 had been accused of promoting illegal construction without having a valid licence in Pataudi tehsil's Bhora Kalan area. Despite several warning, they had constructed an illegal colony," DTP (enforcement) Rajendra Sharma said.

The officials claimed that the developers did not stop construction work in unauthorised colonies despite the fact that they imposed a ban on registries and also conducted demolition in these areas.

Moreover, buyers will get trapped once they invest money in such illegal colonies where no development will take place in future.

"Developers are not mending their ways despite several demolition drives so FIR is the last option. The demolition cost will also recover from the colonizers. The action aims at saving people who are duped by such colonizers of lakhs of rupees for purchasing land in such colonies," Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh, said.

"We direct municipal corporations and other agencies to inspect areas under their jurisdictions and file complaints with police wherever unauthorised constructions are found," he said.

Sources in the administration said most of these suspects are private landholders, who in order to cash in on the demand for plots, sell plots or set up colonies without taking approval from the authority.

The matter was raised in a district grievance committee meeting earlier in March, and chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had directed officials to take strict action.