Petition against drive in SC as AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan joins protest

Locals sit on roads and cease bulldozers which have been introduced for the anti-encroachment drive within the Shaheen Bagh space. Twitter/ @ANI

Bulldozers and JCBs reached Shaheen Bagh Monday because the South Delhi Municipal Company (SDMC) pushed forward with its anti-encroachment drive within the locality that had hit headlines because the hotbed of the anti-CAA stir.

In the meantime, a petition difficult the demolition drive is to be talked about earlier than the Supreme Court docket right now. The Chief Justice of India requested the petitioner to say the matter earlier than Justice LN Rao’s bench which had thought-about the Jahangirpuri demolition.

Residents of Shaheen Bagh hit the roads because the SDMC launched its anti-encroachment drive with the assistance of Delhi Police personnel. Locals staged a sit-in on the roads, stopping bulldozers.

The train, earlier scheduled to be held on Friday, had been cancelled as a result of unavailability of satisfactory safety pressure.

In response to Free Press Journal, native leaders, together with Congress staff, have begun protesting in opposition to the municipal company’s demolition drive in Shaheen Bagh.

“This can be a bulldozer of hatred. It’s utterly unconstitutional. We won’t let this demolition occur,” a Congress chief stated.

Protestors questioned the company’s intention behind the drive. “You [BJP] have been ruling MC for the previous 15 years. What occurred immediately?” the protestor requested.

Folks have been seen standing atop the JCB bulldozers.

Aam Aadmi Celebration’s (AAP) Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan additionally reached the spot amid the commotion over the deliberate demolition drive. He stated the motion was being undertaken to “intentionally disturb legislation and order.”

“I’m right here now. Allow them to present the place the encroachment is,” he added.

Locals claimed there was no unlawful encroachment on public land.

The SDMC has reportedly ready a 10-day motion plan to take away encroachment from a number of areas, together with Shaheen Bagh.

Chairman of SDMC’s standing committee (central zone), Rajpal, stated the municipality will do its work and encroachments can be faraway from wherever they have been.

“Our staff and officers are prepared. Groups and bulldozers have been organised. Encroachments can be eliminated wherever they’re — be it in Tughlakabad, Sangam Vihar, New Pals Colony or Shaheen Bagh,” Rajpal was quoted as saying by information company ANI.

South Delhi mayor Mukesh Suryan instructed ANI that satisfactory police pressure is important for sustaining legislation and order within the space throughout the anti-encroachment drive. Folks of Delhi assist this drive, he added.

Senior police officers have been additionally current on the spot together with their personnel to supply safety to SDMC officers finishing up the anti-encroachment drive within the space.

“Police personnel have been deployed on the spot the place the anti-encroachment drive is being carried out. That is being completed to make sure that the involved civic our bodies can perform their work with none trouble and with all security,” a senior police official stated.

Encroachment drives have been deliberate in SDMC areas after Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta wrote to the party-ruled civic physique’s mayor on April 20 to take away encroachment by “Rohingyas, Bangladeshis and anti-social parts”.

Earlier, Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta had written to the civic physique’s mayor final month, demanding elimination of encroachment by “Rohingyas, Bangladeshis and anti-social parts”.

The demolition drive is going down below the shadow of an analogous train in north Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, days after a communal conflict broke out within the space throughout a Hanuman Jayanti procession.

The 20 April, 2022, train at Jahangirpuri had thrown up heart-rending visuals of individuals begging authorities to cease as bulldozers razed houses and outlets. Constructions close to a mosque, which was on the centre of the Hanuman Jayanti conflict, have been additionally razed.

The train continued even after a Supreme Court docket’s keep order and the court docket needed to intervene once more. The court docket had taken critical word of the continuation of the drive after its order. By the way, a listening to on the matter is scheduled for right now.

With inputs from different businesses

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