Maharashtra civic body seals house in Kalyan to recover property tax, ignores sick woman trapped inside

An ailing woman was trapped for nearly six hours after Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) officials allegedly sealed her house from the outside while attempting property tax recovery, reported Times of India. The incident occurred at Dattaprasad Apartment on Ambedkar Road, Kalyan. Tenant Safina Patel was resting at home due to illness when the civic recovery team arrived. Her son had stepped out for a job interview after locking the grill door, while the main door remained open from the inside, leaving her confined inside the apartment.

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KDMC seizes house of ailing woman

Without even checking if anyone was inside, KDMC officials reportedly sealed the grill door of the apartment and pasted a notice. Residents attempted to alert them about the ailing tenant, Safina Patel, but their warnings were allegedly ignored, the report said. Safina Patel later woke up to find herself locked inside the house, raising serious concerns over the civic body’s enforcement practices.


The issue came to light after the house owner informed KDMC officials, who rushed to the scene and broke the seal. Congress corporator Kanchan Kulkarni raised the matter in the KDMC general body on Wednesday, alleging that the civic body disproportionately targets poor residents for tax recovery while neglecting large industrial defaulters.

Kanchan Kulkarni also claimed that the house owner had an outstanding property tax of Rs 3 lakh, on which the civic body imposed nearly Rs 4 lakh in interest, bringing total dues to around Rs 7 lakh.