PUNE: The Sahakarnagar police booked NCP corporator Subhash Jagtap and his seven accomplices for obstructing the solar panel installation work on Taljai hill and beating up a worker of the contractor assigned the job on Friday morning.
An officer of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Vinayak Jadhav (47) of Dhankawdi, lodged a complaint with the Sahakarnagar police, following which the corporator and his accomplices were booked under sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of duty), 143 (unlawful assembly) and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Jagtap said there was no need to cut trees on the hill to install the solar panels. “We are conducting tree plantation drives in the area for the past 15 years. The project will destroy the tree cover. What is the need of fixing solar panels on the hill? The civic authorities can discuss the issue instead of taking police action against me,” Jagtap said.
The PMC has undertaken the work of installing solar panels on the hill for generating electricity. It gave the contract of installing the solar panels to a contractor. A senior civic official said a survey of trees had been planned in the area.
The police said the contractor and his men were executing the work and few PMC officers were present at the site on Friday when the incident occurred. Police personnel were deployed at the site as per the demand of the corporation.
The NCP corporator, Jagtap, and his workers barged into the solar panel installation site around 11.30am and issued threats of dire consequences to the contractors’ workers and PMC officials. When a worker, Rohit Vilas Bhandare, tried to stop them, Jagtap and his men allegedly slapped and kicked him.
The corporator then told the contractor and the PMC officials that the work should be stopped immediately and that he had discussed the issues related to it with the Pune municipal commissioner. Instead of leaving the site after the work was stopped, the corporator and his men preferred to sit there.
Later, the PMC officials realized that the corporator had not discussed the issue with the top PMC officials and one of the officers lodged the complaint against the corporator and his men.
An officer of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Vinayak Jadhav (47) of Dhankawdi, lodged a complaint with the Sahakarnagar police, following which the corporator and his accomplices were booked under sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of duty), 143 (unlawful assembly) and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Jagtap said there was no need to cut trees on the hill to install the solar panels. “We are conducting tree plantation drives in the area for the past 15 years. The project will destroy the tree cover. What is the need of fixing solar panels on the hill? The civic authorities can discuss the issue instead of taking police action against me,” Jagtap said.
The PMC has undertaken the work of installing solar panels on the hill for generating electricity. It gave the contract of installing the solar panels to a contractor. A senior civic official said a survey of trees had been planned in the area.
The police said the contractor and his men were executing the work and few PMC officers were present at the site on Friday when the incident occurred. Police personnel were deployed at the site as per the demand of the corporation.
The NCP corporator, Jagtap, and his workers barged into the solar panel installation site around 11.30am and issued threats of dire consequences to the contractors’ workers and PMC officials. When a worker, Rohit Vilas Bhandare, tried to stop them, Jagtap and his men allegedly slapped and kicked him.
The corporator then told the contractor and the PMC officials that the work should be stopped immediately and that he had discussed the issues related to it with the Pune municipal commissioner. Instead of leaving the site after the work was stopped, the corporator and his men preferred to sit there.
Later, the PMC officials realized that the corporator had not discussed the issue with the top PMC officials and one of the officers lodged the complaint against the corporator and his men.
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