Chandigarh, Aug. 12 -- Hours after the Centre confirmed that the Chandigarh Heritage Conservation Committee (CHCC) was constituted by the UT administration in April 2012 with the approval of the Union ministry of home affairs, city MP Manish Tewari said the panel had no legal basis and was purely an "administrative fiction created by an executive order".

Responding to a query by Tewari on the legal status of the committee, during the ongoing monsoon session of the Parliament on Monday, the Union ministry of culture only said that CHCC was constituted by the Chandigarh administration on April 20, 2012, following a nod by the ministry of home affairs in response to the report of the expert heritage committee, submitted by the administratio...