A single bench presided by Justice V N Sinha issued the directive following the failure of the PRDA to submit the compliance report of the court orders for removal of illegal structures and encroachments from the setbacks of different apartments in the state capital.
The court fixed July 29 as the next date of hearing of the case when the urban development secretary and the PRDA vice-chairman have been directed to appear before it.
The order was passed during the hearing of a writ petition of Mahant Subelal Das when an intervener petitioner informed the court through his counsel, Alamdar Hussain, that the front setback of an apartment situated on Bari Path in central Patna had been rented to a garment shop and that the vehicles of some inmates of the apartment were being parked on the road.
Hussain submitted that the front setback of the apartment should have been left open for parking of vehicles of the inmates of the apartment. But since the said area had been encroached upon, residents parked their vehicles along the busy Bari path, thus causing traffic snarls.
The intervener petitioner annexed an order of the PRDA for removal of encroachments from the setback areas of 20 apartments in Patna. This PRDA order was made way back, but such encroachments had not been removed yet, Hussain added.
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