Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Oct 10: Joint Commissioner Planning (JCP) of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) today called for an end to hooliganism which he said brings bad name to the Corporation.
Ghulam Hassan Mir (JCP) was earlier assaulted by two ward officers for not granting construction permission to one of them for construction of his house.
“Officials like these are resorting to hooliganism in the prestigious organization which is known for praiseworthy work in disasters like Covid-19, 2014 floods and other eventualities,” he said.
Mir said that it is the high time that the administration shows the door to such officers who are resorting to hooliganism in the name of unionism.
“I have written and informed my higher-ups how some people who have a history of wrongdoings are feeling frustrated in the present system when merit is being followed in the allocation of building permissions,” he said.
Notably, Police have arrested two Ward Officers of Srinagar Municipal Corporation for assaulting the Joint Commissioner Planning under FIR Number(122/2020 under Section 353 IPC).
The JCP had alleged that the officers threatened him if he did not grant them “illegal permissions” for constructing their houses in Hyderpora. He had also alleged that they were organizing protests in the SMC.
Mir said the person who needed permission had claimed that he has got permission from SMC. However, the court had stayed his construction after complaints by the locals in Hyderpora of violating building construction rules.
He was subsequently asked to inquire into the matter, which as per Mir annoyed both of them.” They know my style of working on merit and it annoyed them. They tried to pressurise me,” he said.
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