Overview
- Municipal Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram suspended Junior Engineer Shubhangi Tarukmare and Deputy Engineer Sandeep Misal under Section 56(2)(f) of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act pending a departmental inquiry.
- The action stems from construction at Property No. 216, H. No. 6 in Baner, where the sixth-floor slab is complete and work on a seventh floor continued without a sanctioned plan while a TDR proposal was pending.
- Both officers have been relieved of duty during the investigation, and they have been directed not to leave the municipal corporation’s jurisdiction without prior permission.
- The inquiry will examine negligence and potential collusion after the TDR cell failed to flag the additional floors and a proposal was submitted without proper verification of ownership details.
- PMC says the suspensions are part of a broader enforcement drive against unauthorised construction, following recent staff suspensions and transfers in sanitation operations.