The Pune Municipal Corporation has issued a ₹6.43 crore penalty notice to Vijay Tukaram Raundal of M/s Teerth Developers over the alleged unauthorised excavation of a 1,760-metre stretch of road in Sus for laying an electricity cable to the Teerth Avila residential project.
The action was initiated by the PMC Road Department after the Rayat Swabhimani Sanghatana filed a formal complaint about the excavation. According to the information reported by Punekar News, the developer was constructing Teerth Avila on Survey Nos. 127/1 and 127/2 and adjoining land in Sus when the road was allegedly dug to facilitate an electricity connection.
The civic body’s action concerns both the excavation of the public road and the absence of prior permission from the PMC. The report said the electricity cable was laid without obtaining approval from the municipal corporation before the work was undertaken.
Under the PMC’s road excavation policy, unauthorised digging attracts a penalty calculated at three times the prevailing rate. Applying that provision, the Road Department issued a penalty notice for ₹6,43,73,760 to the developer.
The notice followed an earlier communication from the Road Department seeking an explanation for the alleged unauthorised excavation. According to the report, Teerth Developers did not submit a response or clarification to that notice. The latest penalty notice was subsequently issued to Vijay Tukaram Raundal, identified as the developer associated with M/s Teerth Developers.
Road excavation for electricity, water, sewerage and other services is generally linked to the functioning of expanding residential areas, but such work also affects the condition and management of public infrastructure. In this case, the PMC’s action places the road department’s permission process at the centre of the dispute involving a residential development and its utility connection.
The reported penalty is based on the PMC’s stated three-times rate for unauthorised road digging. The supplied information does not specify whether the developer has challenged the notice, paid the amount, restored the excavated road or received any subsequent approval from the civic body. It also does not provide details of the road’s exact location within Sus or the current condition of the excavated stretch.
The immediate next step is for the developer to respond to the penalty notice and for the PMC to proceed under its road excavation policy. The civic body’s further action will determine how the notice is enforced and whether additional directions are issued regarding the road and the electricity cable.
