In the wake of a wall constructed on a road in Sector 29 here, increasing the motorable distance to the bars in the area, ArriveSAFE president Harman Singh Sidhu, the petitioner in the Supreme Court liquor ban case, has now written to the Gurugram Police seeking demolition of the wall and action against the culprits.
In the letter to the Gurugram Police Commissioner, Sandeep Khirwar, Mr. Sidhu has said that some unscrupulous persons have constructed a nearly 3-ft-high wall, completely blocking the three-lane road connecting NH-8 to Sector 29.
“The wall, an illegal structure, rendered the road impassable, adversely affecting the flow of traffic and severely compromising the safety of the road users. The road, which is a government property, was destructed and affected injuriously by this illegal construction. Surprisingly, the road is still blocked even though more than one week has passed,” said the letter.
‘Book the culprits’
Mr. Sidhu has requested that the wall be demolished at the earliest and the accused be booked under sections 425 (damage to public) and 431 (mischief by injury to public road) of the Indian Penal Code and under other relevant acts of the law.
Mr. Sidhu has written similar letters to the Deputy Commissioner, Gurugram and the Haryana Urban Development Authority Administrator.
The construction of the wall assumes significance as it has closed the right-turn to Sector 29 market, making the motorable distance from the edge of the service road along NH-8 to the bars more than 500m.
Earlier, the excise and taxation department had identified the bars in this market to be falling within the 500 buffer zone fixed by the Supreme Court for liquor ban and put the renewal of their licences on hold.
But the measurement done by the monitoring committee on April 13 following the erection of the wall found that the Sector 29 market was beyond 500m.
