17 properties with links to Abhishek under KMC lens

KOLKATA: ‘Shantiniketan’, at Harish Mukherjee Road where a notice was pasted Monday for alleged unauthorised construction, is among the 17 properties “owned or co-owned by Abhishek Banerjee, his company and family” that are under the scrutiny of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, an official of KMC said.

Officials said notices under section 400(1) of the KMC Act, 1980 — issued for deviations from the sanctioned plan — have been pasted at all 17 addresses. KMC’s assessment department had initially prepared a list of 42 properties allegedly owned or co-owned by Banerjee, which was later pruned to 17. Banerjee vowed to fight back. At a meeting of TMC MLAs at Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat home on Tuesday, he said: “Let them do whatever they want. Raze my home, send notice. I won’t bow down. Come what may, my fight continues against BJP.”

In the notice pasted on ‘Shantiniketan’, persons concerned have been directed to appear before the executive engineer of the buildings department with the sanctioned plan as well as a fresh drawing of the alterations made. “Once the documents are submitted, we will give the owners an opportunity to appear for a hearing.”