A Delhi court has directed an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to appear in person and explain why an ex-councillor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and his sister were wrongly accused of unauthorised construction on their property in 2019 when the property had been sold in 2017. Metropolitan Magistrate Anshul Mehta ordered the ACP to file a report and has also called for a report from the Deputy Commissioner of MCD, West District. The Court has scheduled the next hearing for July 8. The court has questioned why the IO had not made an effort to determine the property owner in 2019. The court also noted that when the notice was issued, no construction was in progress. The ex-councillor, Gurmukh Singh, had sought the court’s intervention after an MCD official registered an FIR against him, alleging unauthorised construction on his former property.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is the governing body that oversees the municipal services of Delhi, India. The MCD administrative area consists of 8 districts, divided into 272 municipal wards.
Gurmukh Singh is a former councillor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) who was wrongly accused of unauthorised construction on his property in 2019, two years after it had been sold to a new owner. Singh approached the Delhi court through his advocate after an FIR was filed against him by an MCD official. Singh denied any unauthorised construction on the former property.
