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Fresh eviction notice to 22 on Monday
IN THE wake of Friday?s Supreme Court order, 22 tenants of the erstwhile Raja of Mahmudabad would be served fresh eviction notices by the administration authorities here on Monday.
IN THE wake of Friday’s Supreme Court order, 22 tenants of the erstwhile Raja of Mahmudabad would be served fresh eviction notices by the administration authorities here on Monday.
The occupants affected, including 13 tenants in Lawrie Building Hazratganj and nine in Mahmudabad Mansion opposite Halwasiya Market, have decided to knock the door of the apex court again for relief.
According to administration sources, Lawrie Building tenants comprise those Janpath Market shopkeepers who have extended the respective portions of their shops onto the Raja’s property behind it, allegedly in excess of the land that was originally allotted to them by the managing worker of enemy property.
The charge, however, is denied by the post-1965 tenants/ shopkeepers, who maintain that they should be treated on par with other tenants of the Raja.
They include Mahatex, Modern Book Stall, Bansal and Sons, Ghanshyam Opticals, The Shop, Messers Keshav House, A Sons, MM Durga Store, Pantaloon Shop, Ambika Electronics, Kesri Sweet, Lucknow Chikan Palace and Anu Advertising.
The prominent four, who were exempted from the eviction order on the ground that they were tenants of the Raja since 1942, include Kohli Brothers, Pratap Singh MuMan’s Royal Cafe, Vikram Capoor of Capoor’s Hotel and Oriental Motor Car Company Private Limited.
In fact, if sources are to be believed, some time back, the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), which had built the Janpath Market, is learnt to have passed demolition orders against what it termed were illegal extensions made by the shop owners. “The shopkeepers went into an appeal before the Commissioner against the demolition order passed by us and ever since the matter has been hanging fire,” revealed an official of LDA’s enforcement wing.
Likewise, the nine tenants of Mahmudabad Mansion, who would have to vacate the portion of their respective establishment that was allotted to them after 1965 include Fairdeal Agencies, UCO Bank, Sharma Accessories and Enterprises, Manocha Furniture, Kalpatru, Atar Rashtriya Vidyapeeth, Ganga Corporation Pvt Ltd, UP Asbestos and Remington shop.
Of the 57 tenants, who were initially served eviction notices by the administration, the 35 occupants who got relief from Friday’s Supreme Court order include two in Lal Kothi in Moulviganj, nine in Siddique Building in Astabal Charbagh and 15 in Imambara Malka Zamania in Golaganj.
“All these tenants, however, would have to furnish documentary proof to establish that they were pre-1965 tenants of the Raja,” pointed out an administration official.
