Many savages, tears of numerous families as well as a huge number of people, waiting faces of a group of parents and some shocked human beings staring unconsciously- that were the few scenes that we all witnessed through various medias. This was the scenario after the devastating fire at the famous building called Stephen court of Park Street. Fire has taken away a number of lives and many dreams as well as a large number of families have lost their shelter and their valuables along with their various emotional attachments with their homes and many priceless assets. Apart from the great loss the building has also lost its reputation and it just only possesses some sympathy from numerous people. The building lost its glory and will be remembered as the reason of killing a number of innocent people in future as well. But do we really know a lot about the building? Let us have a look on the famous building called Stephen court at this stage.

Stephen court, a building that can be defined as symbol of the famous park Street area just opposite the Park Hotel. It was an old building constructed in the year 1924. It was primarily constructed as a residential as well as commercial building of three floors as there was no such differentiation between a civic and a commercial establishment. In the year 1984, another three floors were added to this building. Though according to the civic report the building had seven floors if we count the mezzanine floor. It was an added floor between the ground floor and the first floor.

The building was named after the leaseholder known as Arathoon Stephen of this property at 18A Park Street before the World War I. The man belongs to the Armenian community in Calcutta. He was also the first managing director of Stephen Court Ltd. apart from this the person is having another identity. He was the founder of the grand hotel in Calcutta.

Due to The top three floors the building has crossed the limit of 18m in its height. According to the CMC and the civic rules if any building crosses the height of 18m then an additional clearance was essential. But unfortunately enough the building does not have such clearance. After paying an amount as punishment the CMC regularized the floors and with such regularized stamp the building also achieved the permission to skip to obtain the clearance from the department of fire and such irresponsibility takes away a number of innocent lives making the building standing solely as the criminal. This is absolutely useless if we try to find out who is the solely responsible for this mishap. We can just expect and cross our fingers that our respected CMC authority may take some lessons from this incident and may concentrate a little more so that we may not loose any more innocent life due to such callousness.

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