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Urban Arts Commission ready to review Police Memorial

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Charles Correa, Chairperson of the Urban Arts Commission, on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that the Commission was ready to review the construction of the 150-foot-high steel structure as part of the Police Memorial at Chankyapuri in New Delhi.

Mr. Correa, who appeared before the Court on a summons, gave this assurance to a Division Bench comprising Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma when the Bench sought his opinion on a review of the structure without being "influenced by the Union Government''.

The Bench asked him to file a report within eight weeks on the aesthetic, environmental and architectural aspects to the structure.

However, the Bench disallowed a plea by the Additional Solicitor-General, P.P. Malhotra, to carry out repair in the structure. In his submission, Mr. Malhotra said that the structure in a bad shape and would fall if not repaired.

Rejecting the plea, the Bench observed that the Court did want "public money to be wasted further on it".

Challenging the construction of the steel structure near the Shantipath-Kautilya Marg intersection, the plaintiffs -- senior journalist B.G. Verghese, social activist Anita Vikram Lal, senior citizen A.N. Mishra, secretary-general of the Heritage Society of Delhi, Trilochan Singh, senior architect and structural engineer Mahendra Raj, and art historian Shobita Punja -- have urged the Court to direct the respondents to dismantle or remove the structure from the present site.

The suit said that the four of the plaintiffs-- Mr. Verghese, Ms. Anita Vikram Lal, Mr. A.N. Mishra and Mr. Trilochan Singh -- are staying near the site and are among the persons who are directly affected by the construction of the structure.

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