Author: Golden Yug

Owner against sealing of his premises dated 13-10-2023 approached Civil Subordinate Judge, Municipal Magistrate Jammu but could not get any relief. Then owner approached High Court to get his commercial premises de-sealed but appeal was dismissed. But the question remains where JMC was when this residential house was being converted into commercial one, why no action taken against owner at the initial stage of violation as a result of which now two story commercial structure is successfully operating JMC on the basis of written undertaking that owner will use his premises for residential purposes, de-sealed his premises conditionally in the…

Owner in her sale deed dated 26-3-2018 has mentioned that bifurcated portions which she purchased had got collapsed due to heavy rain and subsequently demolished by owner Ramesh Kumari from whom she purchased and now there is an open plot along with a compound wall existing on spot. But surprisingly when JMC served BOCA notice to owner, she claimed that she is undertaking repairing work of her existing residential structure which only means that she is big liar as if the existing structure collapsed in 2018 what she was repairing which has been aptly proved by her that she has…

Rajesh Gupta s/o Bodh Raj Gupta proprietor of BEE TEE Gupta Transport Company has been continuously raising huge commercial structures for the last five years openly and brazenly on the land approximately measuring 10 Kanals on the main Bye-pass road without permission from any of concerned competent authorities \GY CORRESPONDENT jammu, dec 01 Notwithstanding the fact that the LG Manoj Sinha monitored high profile anti-encroachment drive particularly covering water bodies /govt land from Narwal to Kunjwani generating high hopes that finally land grabbers will be tasked to work but so far it has been proved ineffective as the drive was…

Owner also completed slab work on already illegally constructed shop having tin roof with RCC slab on Nov 8th 2023 on the front side of main road of Channi Himmat colony perhaps with help of enforcement staff and now two bed room set heading towards slab work in couple of days without JMC permission Owner deliberately didn’t get sit plan approved from JMC so that his illegal shop can be saved as had he applied site plan from JMC he would have been asked to demolish existing shop before approving residential site plan as properly guided by enforcement staff how…

Owner being habitual offender made mockery of Hon’ble High Court order and also the written undertakings given by him that he will never use his residential construction into commercial construction on his residential plot 8/6 every time started commercial activity which puts question mark on functioning of JMC being so lenient and loyal towards owner at cost of JMP-2032 and Unified Building Bye-laws 2021 Despite a prominent condition of de-sealing of premises and also Commissioner JMC’s direction to Assistant Enforcement Officer, Enforcement Inspector to keep strict vigil on said premises that the owner shall not use the said premises for…

Owner earlier against approved site plan constructed three equal floors each covering an area of more than 1700 Sqft and also owner from front side left only 5 ft and that too by extending nearly 2ft galleries on each floor whereas she was to leave 12 ft ,likewise from backside the owner left only 5 ft that too extending nearly 2 ft gallery on first , 2nd floor and third floor Owner was served COBO notice under provision of Section 7(1) of J&K Control of Building Operation Act,1988 to owner vide No.MJ/CEO/68/1/21 dated 19-1-2022 reporting that owner has violated ground…

JMC to save their skin under huge public pressure served owner BOCA notice under section 7 (1) dated 6-7-2023 nearly after one year since start of construction projecting huge violations of 42.40% on ground Floor , 67.88% on first floor, 28.35% 2nd floor and owner also didn’t maintain mandatory setbacks particularly rear which was supposed to left 4.7 mtr but owner left 1.3 mtr thus making violation of 72.34% besides violations in height as 3.71% and side-2nd with 100% violation Violations as mentioned in notice under 7(1) vide No. JMC/CEO/33/01/23 dated 6-7-2023 were much higher than projected by JMC as…

Both Housing Board/JMC served twice public notice to corner residential plot 31/4 for making land use change from residential to commercial but still big three floor restaurant is intact and third floor completed couple of months ago by covering 100% area from backside up to three floor level without JMC permission without parking facility Owner also approached Housing Board in Jan 2018 for lease hold rights vide receipt No. 3532 dated 26-2-2019 but the same stands rejected even till date on ground that owner has raised commercial construction on residential plot JMC under pressure, served owner BOCA notice under section…

Owners neither demolished violations on their own nor JMC ensured implementation of 7(3) demolition notice when owners completely changed internal and external dimensions and infect raising commercial construction on residential plot without maintaining setbacks and the violated structure is still intact as on date but sadly still JMC in no mood to take action against owners on merit JMC under public pressure served owners BOCA notice under provision of section 7(1) dated 27-2-2023 vide No. JMC/CEO/74/01/2022 claiming that the owners have raised ground plus two floors against approved site plan and have not observed mandatory setbacks besides floor coverage as…

Then Enforcement staff visited site but didn’t report violations after striking handsome deal with owner to extend unfair help to owner to continue commercial construction on residential plot since March 2023 onwards against approved site plan and even revised plan Commissioner JMC should order an enquiry into this as to how owner managed to raise commercial halls against residential approved site plan on three floors without maintaining setbacks, why JMC so far hasn’t served any BOCA notice to owner As per approved drawing of residential construction in Feb 2023, the owner was duty bound to construct two bed rooms one…