Convene meeting of shopkeepers instantly, municipal corporation commissioner urged

Demanding a meeting inside 24 hours to resolve the stand-off between shopkeepers and the municipal corporation officers on the “to be developed” Super Market in Dharwad, KPCC media analyst P.H. Neeralakeri has urged the municipal commissioner to droop officers who, in line with him, have violated the legislation whereas evicting shopkeepers.

Addressing presspersons together with some of the shopkeepers of Super Market in Dharwad on Thursday, Mr. Neeralakeri demanded that the shopkeepers towards whom, he mentioned, injustice has been meted out ought to be referred to as for the meeting to seek out an amicable resolution.

He additionally mentioned that he’ll strongly condemn the “atrocities” on the road distributors working within the Super Market space.

Mr. Neeralakeri mentioned that ranging from 1977, the municipal corporation has stored the difficulty pending with out making sincere makes an attempt to resolve it. The important cause for the disaster is the shortage of coordination between the officers which consequently has stored the issue unresolved.

“If we observe various orders of the High Court of Karnataka and the Supreme Court from 1986 to 2021 at various points of time, we see that in the Writ Petition (No 7466/1986) between Pragati Chikka Vartkara Sangha (Pragati Small Merchants Association) and the municipal corporation, the corporation has filed an undertaking stating that it will give adequate cooperation to the merchants,” he mentioned.

The courtroom has additionally noticed that improvement ought to be taken up with out affecting the day-to-day enterprise and the municipal corporation ought to contemplate the petitioners plea concerning services. In this connection, two functions are pending earlier than courtroom, he mentioned.

Mr. Neeralakeri additionally mentioned that the police as an alternative of defending the pursuits of shopkeepers are serving to the corporation perform what he added “atrocities” by immediately evicting them. “Without making alternative arrangements, evicting shopkeepers is a clear violation of court orders, urban development regulations and human rights,” he mentioned.

He sought to know who will assist the 70 shopkeepers who had been evicted from the Super Market space with out being supplied any different association and who will present compensation to them.

Mr. Neeralakeri, together with Shivashankar Hampannavar, Shreeshailgouda Kamatar, Narayan Ladwa and others, demanded that motion be taken towards Assistant Municipal Commissioner Sabarad and Assistant Commissioner of Police Anusha G. for what he mentioned violating the legislation whereas evicting shopkeepers.