nagpur it seems there is no end to building norms violations in the city yet another giant building has been found violating norms that too for the last three years khandelwal jewellers building situated in dharampeth is functioning in residential building along with various types of violations however the famous showroom has initiated measures to correct the violations and also obtained stay on action from the district court according to nagpur municipal corporation nmc legal department and dharampeth zone office khandelwal had obtained sanction of building plan for operating the structure for residential purpose in 2011 he brought the structure into commercial use by opening a jewellery showroom instead then assistant commissioner of nmc dharampeth zone mahesh moroney along with engineers had inspected the building and also found violations in parking space side front and rear marginal spaces moroney had issued notice to khandelwal under sections 54 and 55 of maharashtra regional and town planning mrtp act on february 1 2011 directing to change the use of the structure to residential and also raze the unauthorized constructions within 30 days of receiving the notice according to the notice the dharampeth zone office was supposed to raze the unauthorized construction in case it was not done by the showroom in the given period a senior nmc official told toi khandelwal submitted revised building plan to change the use and also regularize the unauthorized constructions nmc town planning department rejected the plan on august 20 2011 then two notices dated september 3 2011 and october 1 2011 were issued to khandelwal instead of action the sources said then khandelwal reportedly appealed to the state government seeking change of use to semiresidential and regularize the unauthorized construction to compound the unauthorized construction the firm purchased a vacant plot adjacent to it and also got sanction to amalgamate it to the existing structure meanwhile khandelwal filed a petition in the district court before joint civil judge senior division the court dismissed the petition on july 5 this year stating no jurisdiction to try appeal against notice given under the mrtp act according to section 149 of the same act then the showroom filed appeal in the court of additional district judge and obtained stay on nmcs action a couple of days ago slamming the nmc officials for protecting unauthorized constructions corporator parinay fuke told toi modus operandi of engineers from zone and town planning department was encouraging violations no action is taken after serving notice under the mrtp act the engineers even give ideas to the violators to save them from action town planning department is entertaining revised building plans even if not eligible for approval khandelwal jewellers is doing commercial operation in a residential building for three years without facing action now plans are on to save the showroom by sanctioning the structure for semiresidential use he said denying any change in use khandelwal jewellers director rajesh khandelwal told toi the process to regularize the unauthorized construction was going on with the town