Kolkata: Dismissing a special leave petition, the Supreme Court asked tenants of City Properties to vacate the premises on DH Road-Ekbalpore Road crossing within eight weeks to facilitate the Purple Line’s ramp construction.TOI had reported on July 3 on the Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor overcoming a major hurdle with a Calcutta High Court division bench dismissing the appeal by tenants of a dilapidated DH Road property, where the Nepal Consulate was to be shifted to allow the Purple Line work.Following the SC order, the building at 1, National Library Avenue will be demolished and the Nepal Consulate next door will be relocated there. RVNL, implementing the 14-km Purple Line, needs the land at the current Nepal Consulate address (7/1 DH Road) for utility cable diversion and widening of the western side of DH Road, so that 60m of the 450-m ramp can be built. Justice M M Sundresh and Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh of the SC ordered on July 15 that they did not find any ground to interfere with the HC order, particularly when the original owner had no objection and had accepted the compensation. The court gave the petitioners eight weeks to hand over the property “after giving an undertaking that they would vacate the premises, clear all rent/dues, if any, and shall not create any third-party right therein”.
