mohali with onus on the executive officer eo of the zirakpur municipal council has put the mohali administration in paradoxical situation over demolition of 83 odd structures despite notification the demolition drive hangs fire and the mohali administration has to file their reply in the hc by february 10 the next hearing date the situation became absurd for the mohali administration after the punjab local bodies recently suspended serving eomc zirakpur along with former eomc following their dubious role in facilitating a local real estate agent the new eo appointed said he was yet to receive the dms orders to carry out demolitiontill date zirakpur mceo has so far failed to write a letter to get police force security as well as appointment of duty magistrate to carry out the demolition drive manvir singh gill after getting charge of eomc zirakpur said i am yet to see the case file of illegal structures which are to be demolished in zirakpur i do not know whether security cover and appointment of duty magistrate has been sought or not following the high court orders the mohali administration had issued notices to owners of 83 such structures which have been constructed within the radius of 100 metres from the boundary wall of the defence installation giving them two weeks time ending january 7 earlier the demolition drive was deferred due to immense cold wave and bad weather conditions on january 6 the demolition was to be conducted on january 7 and then on january 20 as per the high court directions thereafter no further action has been taken so far earlier 15 days notice was given to 98 owners of illegal structures falling within the radius of 100 metres vicinity of the airport boundary wall under the works of defence act 1903 on september 18 following the orders of the punjab and haryana high court to carryout demolition of illegal structures constructed after march 9 2011 at bhabat village and after march 11 2011 at jagatpura village in the vicinity of the air force station chandigarh all such structures have been termed illegal under the works of defence act 1903 the hc had ordered to carry out demolition following due course of law out of the 98 who were issued notices earlier 65 noticees have not disputed the position that their structures have been raised after the public notice of march 09 2011 out of these 16 noticees have not been able to substantiate their claim that their structures were existing prior to the said date remaining 16 noticees were able to adduce evidence that their structures were existing prior to march 9 2011 one referred noticee had submitted that his structure was outside the 100 metres periphery therefore all the remaining 81 structures are raised in contravention of the act therefore they are liable to be demolished since their action of raising the same were illegal there is no question of paying any compensation qua the structure rather they may be liable