Property Developer gets 30 days in jail

[schumi]

Durban - An Amanzimtoti property developer has been sentenced to serve 30 days in jail for building a warehouse instead of the house depicted on the approved plan and then for finishing the building in defiance of a court order.

In a judgment cautioning others who might wish to break the law, Durban High Court Acting Judge Ian Topping ruled that Deepak Bhardwaj, who built the illegal structure at 23 Wanda Cele Road, was in contempt of court.

He has given him a month to demolish the illegal structure, otherwise he must go to prison.

“His illegal conduct cannot be condoned,” Judge Topping said in his judgment.

“I am of the view that a lenient approach would lead to an open invitation to the public to follow the course adopted by him and continue with construction not authorised,” he said.

The eThekwini Municipality first instituted legal action against Bhardwaj in February this year, complaining that although he had an approved plan to build a two-bedroomed house on the property, he had substantially deviated from that and had built a warehouse in a “prohibited area” where no structure was envisaged.

Rest at http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/developer-gets-30-days-in-jail-1.1918996#.Vf-_Z32-Opo

 

[reactor_sa]

Makes no sense, SA is a free-for-all, how can they lock him up lol

 

[Solarion]

Building a warehouse in a residential area. Nice try Einstein.

 

[D3x!]

what a moron, should tender at his cost for a comrade to demolish it.

 

[Necropolis]

Saw the topic and thought the article was going to be about a software developer.

/disappointed.

 

[gregmcc]

Was going to say...a (software) developer gets jail time?

 

[AstroTurf]

Would not mind seeing the pictures.

 

[PsYTraNc3]

So the topic and thought the article was going to be about a software developer.

/disappointed.

same here

 

[Seriously]

In the mean time illegal shacks and squatter camps are allowed to spread and the squatters may build anything everywhere as long as it does not bother or affect the connected!

 

[LazyLion]

That's what happens when you are not an ANC member!

 

[Sonic2k]

Yet another case, where a point, an example, had to be made.
The Theodosiou brothers got away with it for years.

 

[.QQ.]

Was going to say...a (software) developer gets jail time?

That's what I was expecting as well.

*Puts down pitchfork*

 

[RazedInBlack]

Oh Deepak!

/shakes head!

 

[Electron1]

Also expecting this having to do with software.
Title should be updated to say Property Developer.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I was very confused after reading the first sentence. Thought he was developing warehousing software

 

[nfbs]

Also expecting this having to do with software.
Title should be updated to say Property Developer.

Could be software. If he built a data warehouse.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

You gotta do a Google Maps search for "23 Wanda Cele Road"

 

[AfricanTech]

/joins confused crowd



I reckon we've been trolled...

 

[Mark.K]

I also thought it was about a software developer

 

[Mila]

And the Zuma that did something similar, Why did nothing happen to her?