Who stole 3m of this lane? Resident wants probe

PUNE: A retired engineer, who lives in the lane near Kamla Nehru Park with reference to Deccan Gymkhana, has approached the police with a criticism application claiming that some portion of the nine-metre extensive public road in entrance of his house has been “stolen”.

The engineer had filed an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) six months ago looking for information about the road and the plan of a development constructed a couple of years ago. The civic body, in its reply remaining month, mentioned it was once a nine-metre extensive road.

But Sumatilal Mishrilal Kankariya (62) of Bhandarkar Road determined to measure the width of the road with a tape and found out it was once just six metres extensive.

“As mentioned via the PMC, the road will have to had been 9 metres extensive. This road, becoming a member of Kamla Nehru Park and different internal roads, located near Joshi Hospital is set 300m in period. For its whole period, the road is six metres and no longer 9 metres extensive as mentioned via the PMC in the paperwork,” Kankariya mentioned.

He has submitted a criticism application to the police and sought a probe. “A three-metre portion of land has been stolen. Somebody can have grabbed it or there could be deceptive paperwork with the PMC. It wishes verification,” he mentioned.

The Deccan Gymkhana police, who heard the engineer and examined his criticism, have advised him to way the civic body. They did not check in a First Information Report.


The retired man were given curious about the road when a minor argument over parking broke out. “I live to tell the tale the similar road. Sometimes, visitors park here and the watchman from the neighbouring development stops them. I argued with the watchman however he is a poor man appearing at the directions of his employers. Since it led to regular trouble for the folk, I determined to make use of the RTI,” Kankariya mentioned.


In its reply, the PMC gave him the plan and the road width map (a replica of the blue print dated October 8, 2012 is with TOI). “The map clearly indicates that the width of the road is 9 metres,” he mentioned.


Kankariya mentioned he has also studied many different paperwork and realized that the road has been in the land information since 1940. “It has at all times been six metres extensive. I don’t know when and the way its width modified at the paperwork,” he mentioned.


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