Officer who took on land-grabbers shunted

GURUGRAM: The state govt transferred Gurugram’s district the town planner (enforcement) Rajendra Sharma to Mewat on Wednesday. The switch orders were issued within two days of him saying a month-long drive towards encroachers and land-use violators.

This has ended in speculations that Sharma’s new posting is due to drive from the land mafia.

Earlier this week, Sharma had devised a month-long plan to take away encroachments in the district via demolition and sealing. The plan used to be to be finished in the course of the month of July, and used to be to even target solely constructed constructions.

Sharma even shared a detailed course of action with media via a press convention on Monday.

The action used to be to begin on Wednesday, with demolition in the Bhondsi house. An obligation Justice of the Peace used to be appointed for it. However, at 11.30am, orders were issued from the office of the DTCP main secretary to switch Sharma. As a outcome, the plan needed to be scrapped on the last minute, whilst the officer gained his switch orders. He used to be replaced via Mewat DTP Ved Prakash.

The hypothesis, that Sharma’s unexpected switch and new posting is due to drive from the land mafia, arose after he issued a spate of notices to violators in contemporary months. An reputable published that over a hundred unauthorised institutions were issued notices for violating DTP enforcement wing’s norms for land use and development.

Around two dozen unlawful colonies and business institutions have been demolished since February this year. These incorporated a dhaba on Delhi-Gurugram parkway, owned via the relative of a political candidate. It used to be demolished on June 9 and 11, along side 16 other such unlawful constructions.

Sources published even calls from a MLA didn’t deter Sharma from taking action on the dhaba.


On June 23, officers got rid of encroachments of round 45 shops in Block U, DLF three, near Cyber City. Here too, some other people claiming political backing, tried to intrude with court cases. However, the drive used to be carried regardless of the lengthen, and continued on June 26, when 150 assets homeowners were made to restore the roads.


Later, on June 30, the officers demolished an unauthorised colony in Bhondsi, named “Defence Colony”. Such drives were performed on this house prior to now too, but the encroachers resumed development quickly after. So, this time, officers demolished 25-fully constructed and lived houses.


Moreover, officers have now began recommending FIRs with police towards the squatters, thus inviting the ire of the land mafia, who're keen on carving out unlawful colonies.


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