Army towers association files contempt plea as owner refuses to vacate

In an unexpected crook of events, the Chander Kunj Army Towers Apartment Owners Association (CATAOA) has filed a contempt of tribunal petition successful the Kerala High Court against an flat proprietor for refusing to vacate his flat, adjacent aft each the different 207 owners moved retired of their apartments earmarked for demolition and reconstruction arsenic per the tribunal order.

CATAOA moved the petition earlier the aforesaid seat wherever flat proprietor Ciby George, a nonmigratory of flat fig 101 successful Tower C, had filed a contempt petition against the territory collector for alleged non-compliance with the court’s verdict regarding the evacuation, demolition, and reconstruction of the duplicate towers. In August, the tribunal had disposed of a writ entreaty filed by the relation and a fewer owners against the February 3 verdict of a Single Bench of the Kerala High Court — which had ordered demolition and reconstruction connected grounds of superior structural problems — on with respective related reappraisal petitions.

The committee chaired by the Collector is required to wage affected residents six months’ beforehand rent of ₹35,000 per period to owners successful C Tower, ₹30,000 to owners successful B Tower, and ₹30,000 arsenic relocation charges, utilizing funds transferred by the Army Welfare Housing Organisation into an escrow relationship held by the collector. Mr. George, a retired service colonel, continues to enactment successful his apartment, claiming helium has not yet received the beforehand rent and relocation charges.

However, CATAOA office-bearers said they moved the petition aft confirming that Mr. George had been paid 3 months’ rent from the escrow account, portion the remaining 3 months were presumably deducted due to the fact that helium continued to enactment successful his ain flat during that period. “Our superior interest is his idiosyncratic safety. A ample chunk of factual precocious collapsed from the ceiling of the Tower C lobby. The relation cannot beryllium held liable for his information simply due to the fact that helium refuses to vacate. His reluctance is besides disrupting the full task schedule, arsenic the duplicate towers were to beryllium handed implicit to the tahsildar aft each residents had evacuated. Moreover, utilities and infrastructure present person to beryllium maintained solely for him, funded done corporate attraction charges,” said CATAOA office‑bearers.

While Mr. George admitted receiving ₹1.05 lakh successful his account, helium said determination was nary clarity connected whether it was meant arsenic beforehand rent oregon compensation, which helium had demanded. He rejected the allegation that his continued enactment had disrupted the task timeline, arguing that nary steps had yet been taken to adjacent finalise a demolition contractor. “I volition determination retired the infinitesimal I americium paid the beforehand rent and relocation charges,” helium said.