Wrongful eviction: BJP MP presses charges over missing goods

BJP Rajya Sabha member Nand Kumar Sai,who was evicted from his South Avenue house and had to spend a night on the road last month,wants criminal action against officials who carried out the eviction.

I was never informed that I was being evicted from my official residence. I am a Member of Parliament. As elected members we have some rights. If I am being evicted from the official residence,another house should have been allotted,which was not the case, Sai told Newsline over the phone.

Sai had put in a complaint at the Chanakyapuri police station at that time,on which an FIR was registered earlier this week. He had alleged in his complaint that his belongings were thrown out,and during the eviction,cash and valuables worth Rs 50,000 went missing along with other documents.

The eviction was carried out by officials of the Directorate of Estates and CPWD on September 17,while Sai was away in Raipur. He came to know of the eviction on September 19 after returning to the city.

The FIR was registered under Section 380 (theft) of the IPC against unknown persons earlier this week,but no arrests have been made so far.

The matter also reportedly went to the privileges committee of Parliament. My belongings were touched in my absence. I had requested that my articles be stored in an official residence. But things went missing. The same house,176,was allotted to me on September 20,but before that they had already carried out the eviction, Sai said.

Sai was alloted the house when he became a Lok Sabha member in 2004 from Sarguja in Chhattisgarh. He became a Rajya Sabha member on August 3 this year after his LS term got over and the same flat was re-alloted to him by the Upper House Secretariat. But before the allotment,he was evicted on the ground that he was no longer a Lok Sabha MP and was thus not entitled to live there.

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