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FROM
GATES & BARRIERS
- Public
roads cannot be blocked. Only MCD Commissioner can do it after giving 1
Months notice and receiving objections from residents affected. The
gates & barriers were put up in C Block Sarita Vihar on the midnight of 30 November 2001 so that
the residents could not prevent their erection.
- Local
Police has NO authority under law to construct it, hence cannot give the
right, which it does not have to another who wants to construct it. So
conspiring with local SHO by inviting him as Chief guest in a
Association party does NOT legitimize it.
- It
is against LAW: MCD Act, Motor
Vehicle Act, Consumer Protection Act and Delhi High Court order.
- It
is a cognizable offence (Crime under Criminal procedure Code) to
obstruct public streets.
- Local
police conniving with the criminals and their criminal activity is
proved by the SHO refusing to file the FIR.
- It
circumvents the law in the name of security.
- Residents
have already paid for construction of these b roads (in the capital cost
of the house) and pay for their maintenance through house tax to MCD
- Blocking
of roads or no security are not exclusive choices. One can have security
with out denying the residents use of the roads.
- Blocking
a 50 ft road entry and exit and allowing traffic through 16 feet service lanes can only be conceived by selfish residents who
conceal the hidden agenda to
save themselves from heavy traffic in front of their own houses.
- Gates
& barriers tend to privatize public streets, giving undue power to
one person (or persons) who live on a street while depriving the rest of
the neighborhood a voice
- Unfair
to other residents who use the street and paid as much in taxes for it
as those who happen to live along it.
- They
divide neighbors and neighborhoods. Even resident homes are blocked from
their own garages!
- They
cause resident drivers to lose time, increase driving distance,
pollution and cost.
- It
confuses visitors and lose time, increase driving distance, pollution
and cost
- Life
and property may be lost in crucial times when a fire tender or
ambulance or emergency vehicle is delayed.
- Service vehicles, commercial vehicles and
school buses are prevented easy access to the points requiring their
service.
- Old, disabled and sick are denied easy access
to facilities inside the colony and easy entry and exit.
- This has led to favoritism, capriciousness,
unfounded claims of community support and maneuvers to elude and obscure
dissenting voices.
- All this for false Security (there is no
access control) and reduced traffic in front of the houses of RWA
officials!
- RWA instead of coordinating civic amenities
of residents has become a extra constitutional authority for harassment
of residents in the name of maintenance of law and order! Residents pay
taxes to the state for maintenance of a police force for this purpose.
PS:
Freedom is not given, it is taken. Freedom is not lost, it is given away! If
residents don’t rise for SOS (Save Our Streets), they will lose their soul to
fight illegality, crime against themselves and save themselves from the
schemers with their hidden agendas!
Join
me to file a writ in Delhi High Court. Costs will be paid by the criminals,
in addition to damages!
nath@computer.org
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