The demolition drive, carried out around 2 am, was executed so swiftly that not a single piece of rubble was left at the site to avoid any untoward incident during the day.
The contempt petition has alleged that the demolition of the house/shop was done in violation of the Supreme Court's November 13, 2024, judgment restraining demolition actions across the country without prior notice.
After hearing the case of 23 houses where notices were pasted to use bulldozers to remove encroachment, the court has fixed the date of next hearing on November 4.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday assured the Supreme Court that the State authorities won't take any action till Wednesday - October 23 - on the notices for the demolition of the buildings belonging to persons allegedly involved in the October 13, 2024, Bahraich violence in the state.
Police and JDA officials, present at the site to supervise the demolition, informed the media that the accused, Naseeb Chaudhary, had illegally built the house on encroached land belonging to the Rajni Vihar public park.
The Dak Bungalow, built in the old township of Bhubaneswar during the colonial era, is set to be demolished to make way for the construction of a Kalyan Mandap (marriage hall).
As BRS upped its ante over the demolitions of encroachments on Musi River bed and in the full tank level (FTL) and buffer zones of various lakes, the Congress government has hit back by revealing in full details the number of lakes that have been encroached in the past ten years under K Chandrasekhar Rao
The death of a woman by suicide was linked to the demolitions by HYDRAA and BRS leaders even labelled it as a ‘murder committed by the state’ though the state government flatly denied the allegation.
Two people suffered minor injuries in the demolition of the four-story building constructed right in the middle of a lake in the Sangareddy district.
A bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan ordered a halt to the practice of bulldozer justice until the next hearing on October 1. The ruling came while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the practice of bulldozing the properties of people allegedly involved in criminal cases.
