Contributions to communal harmony

Well yet another case when my boss is putting one language on the paper and is actually on hot pursuit with another agenda. The Jama masjid here wanted to do some renovation work. The old masjid hall was brought down and new construction was to be done along with a basement. The police and the nagarpalika objected to the covered basement which was supposed to be housing a madrasa. Now with the excavation done and the construction half way through, the denial of permission was a financially difficult proposition for the local committee.
Now the denial of permission by the police to a madrasa in a closed basement can be understood in the context of the situation we are as a nation with all the talk about terrorism based on religion. The committee now has reworked the proposal for an open basement meant for parking. The police now changed their opinion and said that an open basement is ok. Quite a logical response to my mind. Now the nagarpalika persisted with the objection and refused to consider the new proposal and said that permission can be given only when the basement is demolished
Now such a fear to basement has not been shown in the case of two other cases, one for an electrical shop and one for a temple and has been overlooked in many other cases. So to cloth their objection based on other reasons, the Collector sends a DO saying that there seems to be some encroachment by Jama masjid which needs to be removed. The report of the RI says there is encroachment to the tune of 800 square feet despite the measurements being taken correctly in the presence of a well meaning officer of the Indian Administrative Service. Since there was no new construction on the site, he arrived at the conclusion that there doesnot seem to be any encroachment. The Collector was open in his criticism of the biased way in which his junior counterpart had prepared the report.
The twist in this engineered encroachment which was first reported by none other than the Collector was the conversions used by the RI. Since the measurement was done in the presence of the senior officer he could not do much damage with the measurement part. So he converted hectares to square feet with a formula that did not exist. Again the area of the quadrilateral that formed the plot was calculated using a technique unknown till now thus engineering the encroachment.
Now the matter again rests on the illogical objection raised by the nagarpalika! This is one way we are antagonising the minority community in our nation compelling them to take to attitudes non conducive to harmonious coexistence!