Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: As a condition of its stay while the new building is being built, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has been ordered by the High Court of Bombay in Goa to develop a plan for the meat and chicken vendors within the next six months.
Additionally, the CCP has been required to submit the new building’s specifications along with a completion schedule of eight weeks.
Mushtak Hussain Khatib and eight other parties filed two writ petitions, which the court decided to grant. In order to do business and make a living while the reconstruction is underway, the petitioners had asked the CCP Commissioner to quickly de-seal their shops and premises.
In addition, they had asked that the CCP Commissioner be given the task of creating a rehabilitation plan to help the fish, mutton, and beef vendors who have been there for thirty years or longer. This would be while the fish market building is being demolished and rebuilt.
The division bench, which was made up of Justices M. S. Karnik and Valmiki Menezes, had requested that the CCP record the judgment made regarding the construction of a new fish market building while addressing writ petitions.
The petitioners’ attorneys, Adv. Rohit Bras De Sa and Adv. Abhay Nachinolkar, stated that if the petitioners are granted rehabilitation, they will not insist on paying the rent according to the provisions of the lease and will instead be willing to pay fair rent as determined by the Corporation.
However, the Court deemed it legitimate to compel the Corporation to create a scheme ensuring that responsibility put on it, even though it was not conceivable for it to pass a blanket order requiring the petitioners’ rehabilitation until the building is repaired.
The Corporation has now been instructed by the Court to officially document the choice it made to finish the new building by December 18 at the latest.
