The Detrimental Nexus

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The Sequel The entrance of our building (29, Tilak Nagar, Mumbai 89) was blocked by putting iron grills by Mrs. Jaykar, the Chairperson of the Society, at around 11 am on 13-03-2008, the day our Writ Petition No.474 of 2008 was due for admission wherein the matter related to illegal unauthorized construction, FSI violation, open spaces, entrance, etc. was placed for admission before the Hon’ble Div. Bench of the High Court of Bombay. When the residents approached the local Tilak Nagar Police Station to lodge a complaint the police refused to accept the complaint stating that it was a civil matter Later when police called the builder Mr. Javed, the builder, he informed that he had entered in to an agreement for the said alleged shop with one Ms. Jaykar, in 2005. However, there was a specific clause in the said agreement which read “The builder shall give possession of the unit to the purchasers on completion of entire project including NDR-1 as it will be used as entrance.” And because of the said understanding he had not given possession of the alleged shop to her as the project is not yet completed. On 14th morning complaint was submitted to Home Minister and DCP Zone VI. Later in the day another letter was submitted to police sating that because of their non-cooperation 5 residents had chosen to go on Hunger strike. On 15th residents met DCP and briefed him about case. Sr. PI asked Javed to get the entrance cleared. The Advocate for Javed in presence of Sr. PI was pressurising the residents to withdraw their Writ Petition. Later in evening the builder and police came on site to get the entrance cleared. Just when the grills were removed Kumud Jaykar came along with her daughter Poonam who carried a can of kerosene into the alleged shop. When the residents were about to enter the building through the entrance peacefully, Poonam started pouring kerosene on herself and threatened to commit suicide. Her mother instigated her to put herself afire. Immediately the resident withdrew from the premises and asked police to intervene. Sr. PI witnessed all this commotion. Afterwards Sr. PI asked Poonam to change her kerosene soaked cloths and come to police station. Meanwhile, the kerosene can mysteriously disappeared from the site. At the police station it was evident that police were not keen to sort out the problems of residents. However, after lot of arguments, the resident returned back from the police station and decided to discontinue their hunger strike on the assurance of Sr. PI that the said entrance will not be used by both the parties till the matter is decided as per law. From the discussions in the police station it appeared very clear that Javed, Jaykar and Sr. PI were conniving with each other to deny the rights of the residents. It was learnt that the police did not register any case against Poonam, Mrs. Jaykar and Javed even after persistent requests by the residents to do so. “