Uttarakhand Demolition Row In Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will on Thursday is hearing a petition challenging the Uttarakhand High Court’s order to vacate 29 acres of Railway land in Haldwani as residents of 4000 people home Continuing to protest, pray and plead with officials not to move forward with demolition.

Next to the houses – approx half of The families claim to have a land lease – the area up to four government Schools 11 private schools, a banktwo water tanks, 10 mosques, four temples and shops built over contracts.

Brigade management based on court order of December 20 after a long dispute, issued a notice in newspapers ask people to withdraw their belongings by January 9. It covers a two-kilometer strip of Land near Haldwani railway station – Gafoor Basti, Dholak Basti and Indira Nagar, in Banbhulpura area.

Download officials out a on- Ground searches, while the residents continued to organize marches with candles, sessions and prayers to stop the eviction.

Hundreds of people performed the congregational prayer. of them in a mosque in Region. Before of Masjid Umar, Maulana Muqeem Qasimi, told ANI that people Pray collectively for Solve. some of The protesters were seen crying.

Uttarakhand | Additional Division Rail Manager (ADRM) along with Other administration officials searched for the infringement area of Railways in Haldwani. This comes after the Supreme Court issued a decision to remove the encroachment on the railways. picture.twitter.com/jVH4GyLMIR

– ANI UP / Uttarakhand (ANINewsUP) January 3, 2023

After activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan made official signal in Supreme Court, a bench Chief Justices DY Chandrachud, Justices SA Nazeer and PS Narasimha said it will be heard on Thursday.

Blame the BJP government for a job against a area Where most of the population happens to be Muslim, so do activists and politicians also joined protests.

Congress leader W former President minister Harish Rawat performed an hour-long “maun vrat” (vow of Silence) in his face home in The state capital is Dehradun. He said, “Uttarakhand is a spiritual state, if 50,000 people Including childrenpregnant womenOld men And the women are forced to evict them homes And come on out on On the roads, it would be a very sad sight.”

Ex Uttarakhand-CM & senior Congress leader Harish Rawat sits on Silent hour fast in his home in Dehradun in support of people of Banbhulpura of Haldwani

in Haldwani people protest on Streets after the High Commissioner’s order to remove encroachments from railroad lands picture.twitter.com/8RsmGljdH

– ANI UP / Uttarakhand (ANINewsUP) January 4, 2023

“the Chief Minister He is the guardian of the state. silent fast for custom watch for [Pushkar Singh Dhami],” He said.

Mr. Dami told him government The Supreme Court will respect it decision.

The police and the Civil Administration say the Supreme Court order applies for Now it must be followed. “We swore area in regions for Easy to implement,” said Provincial Police Chief Nilesh A Baharn news ANI agency.

Residents were wondering about the timing and intent of Railways.

Ayoub, 65, showed on NDTV what he called an approved map for for him home. others asked how They had sewer connections before governmentthat was also built schools on the earth.

However, District Judge Dheeraj S. Gabriel said: “People stay here on Railway land. They must be removed. Our preparations are continuing on for this is. We have demanded force. We will remove them soon. “

But 70year-old Geronessa, one of protesters Indian ExpressAnd the “I am here today and may not be there tomorrow; it is mine children And the grandchildren I worry about. Where would they go if we had them? house Demolition? Did the railway wake up? up Just after homes, schools and hospitals built on this earth?”

The matter reached the court in 2013, when the petition was originally about illegal sand mining in river near area.

the pass Said the report of the Government Joint College for Girls (GGIC), which has over 1000 students, also face possibility of Demolition. One employee was quoted as saying the establishment came up in 1952 as a high school before being upgraded over years to become a joint college in 2005.

Management admitted that over 2,000 students will be affected. The plan is to convert them into prefabricated structures in else area nearby for right Now.

About how This construction was permitted on a grand scale on Its land, Divisional Rail official Vivek Gupta was quoted as saying, “This (encroachment on railway lines) is a national phenomenon, and we regret it.”