Mandu Hotel sealed on Green Tribunal order

MHOW: The Dhar district administration sealed a hotel in Mandu on Tuesday evening after the National Green Tribunal Bhopal bench passed orders in this regard. In the evening at about 4.30, Dhar SDM Neeraj Singh along with other revenue officials reached Hotel Jahaj Mahal Private Limited situated on the rear side of Sagar Lake on Rani Roopmati pavilion road in Mandu heritage city. After showing the tribunal orders to the hotel administration, Singh asked them to vacate the hotel, on which altercation started between him and the hotel staff. Thereafter, he asked them to lock the hotel, following which it was sealed in presence of other officials and witnesses.

Talking to TOI, SDM Neeraj Singh said that the Bhopal bench of National Green Tribunal has passed the orders for sealing the hotel as a case is in progress in the tribunal there about gross violation of environmental norms in the construction of the hotel. Singh also said that the tribunal has also asked the Dhar district administration to examine whether the hotel building is obstructing in any way, the water that comes into the lake from the catchment area. Another point, the tribunal has asked them to examine is whether the hotel building is 30 meter away from the lake. In both the matters, the administration will have to give an affidavit to the tribunal on the findings. The hotel will remain closed till further orders of the tribunal.

It is to be noted that the owner of the hotel is senior congress leader and former Dhar MLA Mohan Singh Bundela and he along with his son Kuldeep Singh Bundela look after it.