Apart from them, the high-profile list includes parliamentarians, former MPs and bureaucrats. Details of unauthorised occupants of government accommodation were given by the Central Public Works Department in reply to a RTI query by activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal recently.

While the family of V P Singh continues to hold on to a bungalow in Teen Murti Marg, Mr Jethmalani, a minister in the NDA regime, retains a house on Akbar Road. Ms Chaudhury and Mr Ashwini Kumar, ministers in the previous UPA regime, and former Samajwadi Party MP MP Saleem Sherwani occupy bungalows in the posh Lodhi Estate. Mr Tytler is overstaying in a house on Gurudwara Rakab Ganj road. NCW member Manju Snehlata Hembrom is overstaying in government accommodation at Chanakyapuri.

The government has failed to get the occupants to vacate these accommodations even 10 months after the Lok Sabha elections. The RTI applicant had asked the government why it had not taken recourse to forcible eviction, as it was done in a couple of cases including that of RPI's Ramdas Athawale. The urban development ministry's directorate of estates replied that such steps would be "taken under the provision of Public Premises Act when considered necessary."

Source: Economic Times VIPs Turn illegal Occupants In Lutyen's