If you’re staying in a building which has flouted construction norms in the Kalyan-Dombivli area, you can be sent to prison for three months. In addition to penalising errant builders, the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has decided to book even the occupants of the building.

According to senior officers from KDMC — which has registered nearly 160 FIRs against wayward developers and demolished nearly 2,000 illegal buildings in the last two years — plans are afoot to book all those who are staying in illegal structures. The corporation would book flat buyers under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (MRTP) Act. The law stipulates that offenders shall be put behind bars for three months and the illegal structure demolished immediately.