The rental agreement, a copy of which is with DNA, was for two years. However, the police station continued to function from the same premises for the next 20 years.
Landlords of a shopping centre in city are a harassed lot as so far, all their efforts to evict tenants from their building have gone bust.
Why don't they file a complaint with the police? You would ask.
Well they can't for the stubborn tenant is none other than the men in Khakhi.
Ranjitsinh Thakor and his family members, who are the joint owner of Matheran Shopping Centre, near Shivranjani Crossroads first gave some rooms in the building to the City Police Commissioner on a monthly rent of Rs4,100 in 1986.
At that time the complex was to house the Satellite police station.
But little did the Thakor family know that the police would become permanent residents of the building. The rental agreement, a copy of which is with DNA, was for two years. However, the police station continued to function from the same premises for the next 20 years. This, the owner states was illegal.
When Satellite police station was shifted to its present premises near Ramdevnagar Crossroads in Satellite in 2006, the family demanded possession of the complex. However, the Satellite police instead set up Jodhpur police chowky there and did not vacate the premises.
Upon this, the owner family moved Ahmedabad district court in February 2006 to claim the possession of the rented space and the case is still pending.
The city police recently announced that two new police stations, Anand Nagar and Ranip, will be set up and the former will be housed in Matheran complex.
Learning of the development through media reports, the family sent a request letter to CP not to make the complex the new police station as the matter of its possession was pending before the court. They also faxed the same letter to director general of police (DGP) and state home department.
A controversy, meanwhile, was sparked off on Sunday when landlords of the Matheran Shopping Centre, the building in which the city police is going to inaugurate the newly set up Anand Nagar police station on Monday, moved city civil court seeking cancellation of the inauguration ceremony and demanding possession of the building.
Thakor and his family members filed the suit through their lawyer. The court took cognisance of the matter and issued a show-case notice to the commissioner of police (CP) of the city asking for a reply by June 17.
When contacted, Sudhir Sinha, the police commissioner, said that the matter is pending before the court and that they will shift the proposed police station to new premises as soon as one is found.
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