ludhiana municipal corporation officials can now think of demolishing illegal shops constructed by covering a drain in transport nagar as the case against that has been withdrawn from court and civic body officials have started paperwork associated with it the matter had come to light in august 2008 when mc had razed shops in the area under supervision of the then chief vigilance officer local bodies department ak prabhakar following directions from local bodies minister manoranjan kalia twenty commercial buildings were being constructed after allegedly encroaching upon a piece of land few inches from the drain the construction of shops started again later and when the matter came to the notice of building branch its officials stopped the work in april 2009 in the meantime the matter reached court in ludhiana which issued a stay on the action and made it difficult for mc officials to take action but now that case has been withdrawn sources revealed that some bharatiya janata party councillors were involved in the construction of these shops and had been maintaining that they owned the land which the revenue department had allotted to them the councillors had also staged a protest against the decision of local bodies minister for demolishing the shops therefore officials are fearing that it would become difficult to raze these shops owing to extreme political pressure the report for the shops would be forwarded to the municipal town planner by monday when contacted assistant town planner harpreet ghai said that since the case had been withdrawn from the lower court they had decided to take legal opinion and take action after that