‘Thousands cannot be uprooted in a single day’: SC stays demolition of homes in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the instructions of the Uttarakhand High Court concerning elimination of encroachments from 29 acres of railway land in Haldwani.
The apex court docket issued notices to the Railways and the state authorities in search of their responses on a batch of pleas difficult the excessive court docket order for elimination of encroachments.
According to the railways, there are 4,365 encroachers on the land.
A bench of justices S Ok Kaul and A S Oka noticed that it’s a “human issue” and a few workable answer must be discovered.
The apex court docket stated that fifty,000 individuals cannot be uprooted in a single day whereas barring any development or growth on the land.
The case has now been listed for its subsequent listening to on February 7.
The excessive court docket on December 20 final 12 months had ordered demolition of constructions on encroached railway land at Banbhoolpura in Haldwani.
It had directed {that a} week’s discover be given to the encroachers after which the encroachments must be demolished.
The residents have submitted of their plea that the excessive court docket has gravely erred in passing the impugned order regardless of being conscious of the truth that proceedings with regard to title of the residents, together with the petitioners, are pending earlier than the district Justice of the Peace.
There are spiritual locations, faculties, enterprise institutions and residences on an space unfold over 29 acres of alleged encroached railway land in Banbhoolpura.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the instructions of the Uttarakhand High Court concerning elimination of encroachments from 29 acres of railway land in Haldwani.
The apex court docket issued notices to the Railways and the state authorities in search of their responses on a batch of pleas difficult the excessive court docket order for elimination of encroachments.
According to the railways, there are 4,365 encroachers on the land.
A bench of justices S Ok Kaul and A S Oka noticed that it’s a “human issue” and a few workable answer must be discovered.
The apex court docket stated that fifty,000 individuals cannot be uprooted in a single day whereas barring any development or growth on the land.
The case has now been listed for its subsequent listening to on February 7.
The excessive court docket on December 20 final 12 months had ordered demolition of constructions on encroached railway land at Banbhoolpura in Haldwani.
It had directed {that a} week’s discover be given to the encroachers after which the encroachments must be demolished.
The residents have submitted of their plea that the excessive court docket has gravely erred in passing the impugned order regardless of being conscious of the truth that proceedings with regard to title of the residents, together with the petitioners, are pending earlier than the district Justice of the Peace.
There are spiritual locations, faculties, enterprise institutions and residences on an space unfold over 29 acres of alleged encroached railway land in Banbhoolpura.
