Court asks civic officers to pay for illegal hoardings

The court gave the corporation two weeks to take action against illegal hoardings. No hoardings should be allowed on roads and pavements,the court said.

Prabhakar Chaudhary,a local resident,had filed a PIL complaining about illegal hoardings. The photographs attached to the petition showed that in many cases pavements were blocked due to pillars supporting the hoardings. The court noted that some of the hoardings were actually on the road.

“Do they know anything? They don’t know the sites,whether banners are authorised or not,” Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar remarked about the municipal officers present in court.

The court also observed that the corporation has failed to perform its statutory duties.

The court said that the Municipal Commissioner has not filed an affidavit or a reply even after court orders and even after observing that it was an urgent matter.