Taking serious note of unauthorised constructions in Delhi-NCR and the recent fire incidents in Delhi and Lucknow, the Supreme Court on Thursday, July 9, pulled up the civic bodies and said top officials will be personally liable for non-compliance of its directions.A bench of justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan, which sought personal presence of officials of Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Gurugram and Lucknow civic bodies, said it is bothered with their conduct and non compliance of its directions issued from time to time.The top court was also irked over the fact no effective action was taken on ground with regard to its May 20 directions for sealing, demolition, or any other action warranted in law for the unauthorised structures.Observing that no “slackness” on the part of civic authorities will be tolerated, the top court took on record status reports filed by senior advocate Ajit Sinha, who has been appointed amicus in the matter with regard to recent fire strategies in Delhi, Lucknow and action on unauthorised constructions. It also warned of initiating suo moto contempt action against civic bodies which do not comply with its earlier directions. Sinha, assisted by advocate Govind Jee, pointed out that recently two fire incidents that occurred on June 3 at Delhi’s Malviya Nagar and June 22 at Lucknow were not tragedies that were caused by a single failure but by the convergence of several.