Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has criticized the Uttar Pradesh government on Monday for demolition of houses in Prayagraj in an ‘arbitrary’ manner. The Supreme Court said that this action has shocked his conscience. A bench of Justice Abhay S. Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan has also expressed displeasure at demolishing the houses from bulldozers within 24 hours of giving notice and not giving time to the victims.
Such a process cannot be tolerated
The bench of the Supreme Court said, ‘It shakes our conscience as to how residential complexes were arbitrarily demolished. The way the entire process was carried out is shocking. The courts cannot tolerate such a process. If we tolerate it in one case, it will continue.
Demolition of demolished houses will be allowed to be allowed
The Supreme Court said that the court will allow petitioners to reconstruct the demolished houses, provided they file an appeal before the Appellate Authority within the stipulated time. The court said that if their appeal is rejected, the petitioners will have to demolish the houses at their expense. The case was postponed to file an affidavit to the petitioners.
Cleanliness given by government in court
Attorney General R Venkatramani, while defending the state’s action, assured to follow the ‘appropriate process’ in giving notice. He pointed to illegal occupations on a large scale, saying that it is difficult for the state government to control unauthorized occupation.
Supreme Court has criticized earlier also
The Supreme Court had earlier criticized the Uttar Pradesh government for demolishing houses without following the appropriate legal process in Prayagraj. The court had said that this action gives ‘shocking and wrong indications’. The counsel for the petitioners had said that the state government wrongly demolished the houses thinking that the land was from gangster-royal Atik Ahmed. Atik Ahmed was killed in 2023.
Allahabad High Court rejected petition
The Supreme Court, advocate Zulfikar Haider, Professor Ali Ahmed and others were hearing the petition, whose houses were demolished. The Allahabad High Court rejected his petition challenging the action of demolishing the houses. (With language input)
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