The Delhi High Court Friday requested the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) to document a testimony explaining the motives for including after which deleting a slum cluster in Mehrauli from the listing of rehabilitated/ notified JJ clusters. The excessive courtroom docket granted time to the recommend for DUSIB and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to document their affidavits withinside the remember with the aid of using February 21.
It additionally requested the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to document a quick affidavit withinside the remember. “This pertains to four hundred homes of people. You will ought to provide me motives why you deleted it. How you introduced it first after which deleted it from the listing. I need the information together with the motives,” Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora stated.
The excessive courtroom docket became listening to a plea with the aid of using Ghosiya Slum Colony in Mehrauli, which became to be demolished with the aid of using the government. The courtroom docket stated its period in-between order directing the government to keep the popularity quo on four hundred jhuggis of the slum colony will keep until the subsequent date of listening to, that is, February 28.
The petition has said that Ghosiya Slum Colony is a jhuggi cluster duly enlisted withinside the listing of rehabilitated/notified clusters posted with the aid of using DUSIB on its authentic website, which statistics four hundred jhuggis, as does the Delhi Slum Rehabilitation Policy of 2015.
During the listening to, the recommend for DUSIB stated that the cluster in advance became withinside the listing, however now they’ve eliminated it. The recommend for DDA sought time to document the affidavit together with Google snap shots of the site.
The DDA, on February 10, began out a demolition pressure withinside the Mehrauli region amid police security. However, on February 14, Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena directed the DDA to prevent the anti-encroachment pressure in Mehrauli and Ladha Sarai villages until in addition instructions, Raj Niwas officers had stated.
Locals have claimed that a few and three-storeyed homes close to Aulia Masjid at Andheria More and a few shanties had been demolished that morning all through the pressure. The land on which the alleged encroachment became executed belonged to a couple of companies which includes DDA, Waqf Board, and ASI, it’s been claimed.
According to the demolition notice, the land on which the demolition is being done is part of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park and the “current unauthorised encroachment” is performing as a problem to the improvement of the park.