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Snehil, who is the Fort Kochi sub-collector, talks to Manorama about the problems, allegations against him and how his team could pull off the mission successfully.
The court however did not agree to the demand that the damages should be paid from the confiscated assets.
Residents near the four high-rise apartment complexes, demolished on Saturday and Sunday, will have to wait for a few more days to get back to normal life.
There are four cases registered over the alleged corruption that led to the construction of the skyscrapers in violation of coastal regulation zone rules in Maradu.
The four residential high-rises - Holyfaith H20, Alfa Serene, Jain Coral Cove and Golden Kayaloram - stood on over 4 acres in an environmentally sensitive area fringed by backwaters close to Kochi's Arabian Sea coast before they were razed.
It took 36 seconds to raze all the five towers.
The controlled implosion on January 11 and 12 marked the culmination of a three-month process in which the district administration worked like a well-oiled machinery.
Their apprehensions that the blast might damage houses nearby were proven wrong as the buildings withstood the after-effects of the implosion, which razed the flat complexes to rubble within seconds.
The District administration, led by collector S Suhas, was visibly elated. Authorities claimed the demolition process was completed in a near-perfect manner.
Two of the four illegally-constructed flat complexes at Maradu came crashing down within seconds as hundreds of people watched the culmination of an unprecedented legal action in the state.