The under construction building’s two basement parking, low-ground parking, upperground parking and six-storey building is legal, while the seventh floor has reinforced cement concrete (RCC) slab and the centering work going on the eighth floor are illegal.
The Pune police have asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to demolish the under construction commercial building, ‘Cello Platina’, adjacent to the Shivajinagar police headquarters on Fergusson College Road. However, the civic administration is yet to oblige the city police.
During a file inspection at the PMC under section 4 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, DNA accessed the letter that the Pune police commissioner, Meeran Borwankar, wrote to the civic body on April 5.
In the letter, the third to be sent to the PMC, she stressed the imperative need to demolish the “illegal structure”. Borwankar had written on January 27 and January 29, noting how the building poses threat to the security of Shivajinagar police headquarters and other establishments of the Pune police.
She said the headquarters sees regular movement of VIPs and ministers, and having such a high structure next to it would pose a security threat.
According to the PMC city engineer’s report, the under construction building’s two basement parking, low-ground parking, upperground parking and six-storey building is legal, while the seventh floor has reinforced cement concrete (RCC) slab and the centering work going on the eighth floor
are illegal.
Acting on the police chief’s second letter, civic officials inspected the area on January 30. The city engineer found that the developer has violated the permission granted to construct the building, and a stop work notice was issued on February 1.
Acting on the notice, architect Avinash Nawathe wrote a letter to the PMC on February 2 stating that the builder had submitted a new layout plan on August 2006. The letter also mentioned that the ongoing construction was according to the new plan.
PMC additional city engineer, Vivek Kharwadkar, said the PMC had issued the stop work notice following the police chief’s letter. “We are waiting for the builder’s reply before issuing demolition notices,” he said.
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