Campa Cola residents refuse to vacate flat even after SC rejects plea

While the Supreme Court has dismissed the Campa Cola residents plea in the morning, the residents said that they would not vacate the illegal flats and would camp inside the premises.

“We are not vacating the flats and all the resident will camp inside the compound. We are hoping that Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan will give us some relief,” Nandini Mehta, spokesperson for the Campa Cola residents told Firstpost.

On Monday evening, the Chavan held a meeting with the municipal commissioner and Campa Cola residents over the issue. “In the meeting, Chavan has assured us that he will consult the new attorney general to check whether state government can provide relief to residents. We are hoping that he will take some decision to provide relief to us,” added Mehta.

Prior to the meeting, the state government, in the State Legislative Council, had said that it would discuss the issue in the cabinet meeting after opposition parties raised the issue of the Campa Cola housing society demanding to look at it sympathetically.

In last week, the civic body issued notices to the residents asking to vacate their flats peacefully and deposit the keys of the illegal flats between 29 May and 2 June. While the deadline to handover the key is over, nobody handed over the keys of the illegal flats to the civic body, say civic officials.

However, the civic officials are planning to file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court against the residents for not vacating the premises withing the stipulated period.

More than 100 families have been residing in the housing complex for the past 25 years.

Seven high-rise buildings were constructed between 1981 and 1989 in the Campa Cola compound. While the builders were granted permission for ground-plus-five floors, some of the constructions were built with extra floors.