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rajindia (owner)     02 December 2014

Urgent: authority to shut down restaurants with no license

PLEASE TREAT THIS AS URGENT. THANK YOU. I HAVE ISSUED A NOTICE TO START INDEFINITE FAST.

Hello,

I want to know as to who has the authority to close down the restaurants (restaurants run in shop gala in a building) that are running without ANY license in PUNE. Municipal corporation, Police and Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) are pointing finger at each other with no one taking responsibility for this.

I have a letter from police saying that no restaurant has any permit issued by them. Municipal corporation has issued us a letter saying that they are illegally using water supplied to the building, so we can cut it off. Moreover, they have issued a letter saying that these restaurants' drainage is not supposed to be connected to the building drainage, so we could disconnect it. We have done this accordingly, but these restaurants are still running and their drainage has created filth in the building as it has nowhere to go.

Municipal corporation has threatened us that they will file a criminal case against the flat owners for creating unhygienic situation in the building where as no one from these three authorities is taking any action in shutting down these restaurants in the first place and are instead blaming us.

Could some one highlight as to whose responsibility it is ultimately to shut down these illegal restaurants? (apart from moving the courts of course).



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nikhil singh (Advocate)     03 December 2014

Ask your society to file a writ petition before the High Court making Municipal Corporation party as well as  Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

 

Nikhil Singh
Associate, Law Consults
'LawCon House', D-61, East of Kailash
New Delhi - 110065
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rajindia (owner)     03 December 2014

Thank you Mr. Singh for your reply.

Moving the courts is always an option. I wanted to know if the authorities I mentioned, viz. Police, Municipal Corporation and FDA can in their authority actually close down these restaurants? They are telling me that they are doing all they can and they have no authority to close them down.

Please advise.

Thank you.


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