{"id":315283,"date":"2019-09-27T09:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315283"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:29:05","slug":"sc-orders-demolition-of-kochis-maradu-flats-rs-25-lakh-interim-compensation-for-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-orders-demolition-of-kochis-maradu-flats-rs-25-lakh-interim-compensation-for-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"SC orders demolition of Kochi&#8217;s Maradu flats, Rs 25 lakh interim compensation for owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Friday directed that demolition of Kerala&#8217;s four apartment buildings built on the coastal zone of Kochi&#8217;s Maradu, be completed in 138 days, in accordance with the schedule provided by the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The last-minute effort by the Kerala government to protect the buildings failed with the Apex Court making it clear that illegalities cannot be allowed to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court also ordered the state government to give interim compensation of Rs 25 lakhs to each flat owner within four weeks\u2019 time and recover the cost from the builders and promoters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Court said, a committee of retired judges, technical experts and civil engineers will further evaluate the compensation payable to the flat owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur main concern is violation in construction and to stop illegalities, but we are not against them (flat owners). We have to protect them. They have to be compensated immediately,\u201d said a Bench comprising justices Arun Mishra and S Ravindra Bhat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The next hearing has been fixed for October 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court has also directed freezing of assets of builders and promoters who were involved in the construction of buildings in the coastal zone areas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday directed that demolition of Kerala&#8217;s four apartment buildings built on the coastal zone of Kochi&#8217;s Maradu, be completed in 138 days, in accordance with the schedule provided by the state. The last-minute effort by the Kerala government to protect the buildings failed with the Apex Court making it clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,36,2072,2014],"tags":[4704,11827,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315284,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315283\/revisions\/315284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}