BMC Tax Dept Employee Beaten Up By Defaulter In Mumbai
Gharwade and his three accomplices visited a building and posted notices on the doors of 19 flats
Mumbai: A BMC employee assigned for collecting property tax was beaten up by a tax defaulter in Mumbai’s Fort area when he went to slap a notice on a building and the defaulter’s car.
Civil servant Dashrath Gharwade is working in the evaluation department of A-ward. Since 2020, he has been assessing and collecting taxes in this sector. On March 23, he went to slap a notice on a building and the defaulter’s car, when he was beaten up by the owner.
There are three buildings at Ambalal Doshi March, Hamam Street, Fort, which is owned by accused Ashwin Kumar Shah. According to the FIR, Shah has not paid any property tax for the last 10 years and his dues are Rs 43.76 lakh. In June and September 2021, the BMC issued two notices reminding Shah to pay taxes, but he ignored the notices.
On Wednesday, Gharwade and his three accomplices visited a building and posted notices on the doors of 19 flats.
According to the notice, if the tax is not paid within 48 hours, the sewerage line will be disconnected. Thereafter, the BMC employees stuck the notice on Shah’s car, too, even clamping a tyre.
The action led to a fight between the BMC employees and Shah and his driver.
Gharwade said, “I told him I was following the law. The BMC rules permit us to stick a notice on cars and tie an iron clamp on a tyre. Irked, Shah and his two accomplices hit me on my face, chest and stomach. He also stopped me from going outside the building premises.”
(With Free Press Journal Inputs)
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