Mumbai, Dec. 4 :    Mumbai, Dec. 4:  After demolishing more than 1,00,000 illegal houses across the financial capital, including those belonging to Dawood Ibrahim, Govind Ragho Khairnar faces eviction at the end of his 26-year-long municipal career. The demolition man, who retired as officer on special duty at Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation last Thursday, after an extension granted six months ago was abruptly ended reportedly under political pressure, said he was asked to leave his Shivaji Park municipal quarters immediately or forgo his retirement benefits. 'I have no place to go to, no permanent roof over my head,' Khairnar, 59, said. 'I don't have an inch of land anywhere in Maharashtra, not to speak of a house. I have already given up my share of our family property in Nashik.' 'The state government job was a gazetted one, but there were no quarters available to the officers. The municipal job was not gazetted, but it offered housing. I accepted the demotion because I was desperately looking for a place to stay,' Khairnar said. Khairnar has been living with his family in the 700 sq ft quarters since 1983. 'It was too small for an officer of deputy municipal commissioner rank, but I did not mind because my needs in life are few. I had turned down a proposal to renovate it because it would have cost Rs 14 lakh,' he said. Regarded as an honest officer who had often defied powerful politicians, including Sharad Pawar and Bal Thackeray, in his efforts to bring errant builders to book, Khairnar said he had not saved enough to buy a flat in the city. 'My salary went mostly on meeting household expenses. I had to also support my parents living in villages,' he said. Tasked with clearing the city of encroachers and illegal buildings as deputy municipal commissioner since 1992, Khairnar could easily have had a flat or two in prime localities, a colleague said. 'The fact that he does not have a place to stay in this city after spending so many years only shows his integrity,' he said. Not having a place of his own, however, does not worry the man born to a wealthy farming family in Nashik, which lost all its wealth to repeated droughts in the past two decades. 'When I came to Bombay in 1964 looking for a job, I used to sleep on pavements. I am not worried about anything,' said the tall and lean official. Khairnar said he and his wife had planned to buy a flat on loan. But the plan went haywire after he was suspended in June 1994, soon after demolishing 29 highrises built illegally by the D Company. 'There was huge political pressure on the municipal administration to stop me. I was asked to stop the demolition,' he said. Khairnar earned Pawar's wrath for publicly criticising the political establishment for derailing the demolition drive, leading to his suspension. He spent the last six years fighting the suspension order in court. He was reinstated in April this year, barely two months before he was to retire. In June, he was given a two-year extension. But last Thursday, the government abruptly terminated his job. 'I could not buy a flat before my retirement because I was under suspension for the last six years and denied loan by the corporation,' he said. 'I can try to buy a small one in suburbs, but not until the government pays my dues.'