WP(C) 6506/2010 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE B.P.KATAKEY Heard Mr J Chutia, learned counsel for petitioner, as well as Mrs VL Singh, lear ned State counsel appearing for the respondent No.1. Also, heard Mr Bora, learne d Standing Counsel for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation. The petitioner’s grievance in this petition is that the respondent No.2 had started demolition of the RCC slabs and threatened destruction of the Assam- typed house, constructed over a plot-of-land, covered by Dag No.113, FS Grant Pa tta No.1, village Chunsali, mouza Ulubari, District - Kamrup, bearing Holding No .170, Ward No.30 (old) 47(new), without issuing any notice. It is also the case of the petitioner that the Assam-typed house had been set up prior to 1971. She, therefore, prayed for a direction to the GMC authority not to demolish the said Assam-type house without deciding her claim that said Assam-type house had been constructed prior to 1971, since the RCC slabs had already been demolished. Learned counsel for respondent No.2, on the other hand, has submitted th at the notice, as required under Section 337 of Guwahati Municipal Corporation A ct 1971, had been issued in the name of petitioner’s husband who, on receipt of the same, had submitted a reply on 18th September 2010 and, therefore, it cannot be said that the petitioner had no notice of the proposed demolition of the RCC slabs as well as the Assam-type house, standing over the aforesaid plot-of-land . It has, however, been submitted that should the petitioner file an appropriate representation before the GMC authority enclosing the proof that the said house had been constructed prior to 1971 and/or for regularization of such set-up, th e same shall definitely be considered by the GMC authority in accordance with la w. Since the petitioner has claimed that the Assam-type house was construct ed prior to 1971 and there is a provision for regularization of such set-up in t he building bye-laws of the municipal authority, the present petition is dispose d of with a direction to the petitioner to approach the GMC authority along with a representation with proof of her claim that the house was constructed prior t o 1971. In the said representation petitioner may request the GMC authority to r egularise such construction, in the event the same was not constructed prior to 1971. Such representation shall be filed within four weeks from today. The GMC a uthority shall consider the same and pass necessary order within two months ther eafter. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs.