Reject post-construction plan

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsIn Chennai, people first construct illegal and unauthorised buildings and thereafter submit a plan for regularisation. This practice must be deprecated, the Madras High Court observed on Friday and directed the CMDA and the Chennai Corporation not to entertain such requests for regularisation. The first bench comprising Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice A Arumughaswamy gave the direction while passing further interim orders on a public interest writ petition seeking action against the management of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School in KK Nagar, where a student drowned in the swimming pool, a fortnight ago. The bench was informed that the school had not obtained permission from the CMDA for the swimming pool. The CMDA stated that the swimming pool was not shown in the approved site plan while making the construction and that the management had made a deviation in respect of unauthorised building and applied for regularisation, which was rejected in March 2010. The CBSE had submitted that there was no rule or guideline for affiliation of a school, unless it made provision for training of swimming as a subject or extra-curricular activity. The school’s senior counsel PS Raman submitted that the school had gone on appeal against the rejection order of the CMDA and that it was pending. The bench said that the swimming pool should remain closed. In the event Raman’s submission was found incorrect, then it would pass further orders directing to demolish the swimming pool. Adjourning the matter by four weeks, the bench also said that it was open to the authorities concerned to alter the sections or add more sections under the IPC in respect of the case in hand, if other offences were made out. first published:September 01, 2012, 12:54 ISTlast updated:September 01, 2012, 12:54 IST
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In Chennai, people first construct illegal and unauthorised buildings and thereafter submit a plan for regularisation.

This practice must be deprecated, the Madras High Court observed on Friday and directed the CMDA and the Chennai Corporation not to entertain such requests for regularisation.

The first bench comprising Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice A Arumughaswamy gave the direction while passing further interim orders on a public interest writ petition seeking action against the management of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School in KK Nagar, where a student drowned in the swimming pool, a fortnight ago.

The bench was informed that the school had not obtained permission from the CMDA for the swimming pool.

The CMDA stated that the swimming pool was not shown in the approved site plan while making the construction and that the management had made a deviation in respect of unauthorised building and applied for regularisation, which was rejected in March 2010.

The CBSE had submitted that there was no rule or guideline for affiliation of a school, unless it made provision for training of swimming as a subject or extra-curricular activity.

The school’s senior counsel PS Raman submitted that the school had gone on appeal against the rejection order of the CMDA and that it was pending.

The bench said that the swimming pool should remain closed.

In the event Raman’s submission was found incorrect, then it would pass further orders directing to demolish the swimming pool.

Adjourning the matter by four weeks, the bench also said that it was open to the authorities concerned to alter the sections or add more sections under the IPC in respect of the case in hand, if other offences were made out.