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23. That the petitioner has also placed on record notices issued / orders passed by him taking action against the concerned plot owners who had raised construction in violation of the norms. The action taken by the petitioner is prior in time to the registration of the FIR's. Qua, FIR No. 25/2012 dated December 8, 2012 the notices were issued on July 16, 2012 while order as to why the violations be not demolished was issued on July 31, 2012. However FIR came to be registered later on, only on December 8, 2012. No doubt the stand of the respondents in the FIR is that the petitioner took action only when the SVO started investigating the matter. However Ld. counsel for the petitioner contended that the petitioner took action the moment the violations came to his notice, and the position would have been different had no action been taken by the petitioner. As regards FIR No. 02/2014 dated January 9, 2014 the notices were served by the petitioner on the owner of the plot on August 14, 2012 whereas order under the COBA Act, 1988 is dated December 17, 2012 requiring the owner of the plot to demolish the construction/violation within 5 days. The J&K Special Tribunal regularised the deviations in question by compounding the same vide order dated May 16, 2013 whereas the FIR came to be registered on January 9, 2014 and proceedings in respect thereto came to be stayed by this court vide order dated March 4, 2014. In the 3rd FIR i.e. FIR No. 21/2014 dated June 30, 2014, the petitioner had issued notices dated September 26, 2009 to the owner of the plot followed by notice dated July 26, 2010 for demolition of the construction/violation whereas the J & K Special Tribunal Jammu vide order dated April 4, 2012 quashed the demolition notice/order under the J & K COBA Act, 1988. On writ petition being filed against the order of the J & K Special Tribunal, this court passed orders of status quo on June 4, 2012 whereas FIR was registered on June 30, 2014. The above sequence of events goes to show action having been taken by the petitioner qua the constructions alleged to be in violation of norms and that too, prior to the registration of FIR's.