Bengal

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has held that a Municipal Administrator has full authority to decide complaints of unauthorised construction and order demolition of illegal structures even when no elected board is in place.

Justice Arindam Mukherjee made the observation while dismissing a developer’s plea against a demolition order passed by the Administrator of Bally Municipality. The order directed the removal of an unauthorised fourth floor and other deviations from the sanctioned building plan following a complaint by a neighbouring landowner.

An inspection revealed that the entire fourth floor, measuring about 244.30 square metres, had been constructed without a sanctioned plan. The Administrator, by an order dated July 28, 2022, directed demolition of the fourth floor and

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