India, Nov. 11 -- Residents allege that while the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has intensified its drive against encroachment across the entire city, it has failed to act against trespass in its own backyard; the infringement in question being a scrap shop that has reportedly been operating in the deputy commissioner zonal office 5 building on Tilak Road adjacent to the PMC premises.

The scrap shop, located inside the PMC's Tilak Road regional office compound, has also encroached upon the front footpath, forcing pedestrians to walk on the road. Ironically, the building permission and anti-encroachment departments - which regularly take action against stalls, shops and hotels for unauthorised construction and even margin violations - ...