Thane: Illegal Building Of Former Corporator Kunal Patil Demolished

Kalyan, 27th March 2023: Kunal Patil, a former corporator of Adivali-Dhokali village, had erected a three-storey illegal building on Malanggad road, known as the hotbed of illegal constructions in Kalyan East. On the order of the commissioner, the demolition team led by the assistant commissioner of the ward, Hema Mumbarkar, demolished the building on Thursday with the help of a powerful machine. For the first time in the past five years, the municipality used this machine to demolish an illegal building.

Kunal Patil, a former corporator of Adivali-Dhokali ward, had erected an illegal building of three floors last year in the name of a residence and college next to the Kohinoor project in Adivli Dhokali village in I Ward.

Assistant Commissioner Hema Mumbarkar ordered Kunal Patil, the owner of the construction, to submit the municipal approval documents for these constructions. They could not file the construction documents with the municipality within the stipulated time. Therefore, Assistant Commissioner Mumbarkar declared this building unauthorized. Considering the possibility of this illegal building causing sewage and drainage problems in the area, Commissioner Dr Bhausaheb Dangde ordered Deputy Commissioner Sudhakar Jagtap and Assistant Commissioner Mumbarkar to demolish this building. As it was not possible to demolish this building with the help of JCB, Pokalne, Assistant Commissioner Mumbarkar used a powerful machine to demolish this building. As soon as demolition started at 11 a.m. on Thursday, till four o’clock in the evening, in the presence of 20 workers, the three-story building was razed to the ground with the help of power tools.

Before demolishing the building, some congregations tried to stop the action, which was not appreciated by Mumbarkar. As Mumbarkar took an aggressive stance that action will be taken as there is an order from the Commissioner, no mafia came forward to stop the action. In this way, instead of using JCB and Ghan to demolish the illegal constructions in Kalyan-Dombivli, the citizens are demanding that the Commissioner order the Assistant Commissioner to use the High Jaw Crusher machine.

“Many constructions in the Adivali-Dhokali area have been declared as unauthorized. All these old and new constructions are being demolished. The crusher machine will henceforth be used to break tollejung constructions,” said Hema Mumbarkar, Assistant Commissioner, I Ward, Kalyan.