The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain a plea filed by CPI(M) towards the demolition drive in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh space, saying it can’t intervene with the anti-encroachment drive on the occasion of a political get together. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai requested the get together to strategy the Delhi High Court.
“Why is CPI(M) filing a petition? What is the fundamental right that is being violated? Not at the behest of political parties. This is not the platform. You go to the high court,” the bench mentioned. The high courtroom additionally mentioned if hawkers are encroaching, they are going to be eliminated and in case there may be any violation of regulation by authorities, the petitioner can go to the High Court.
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation, which began a demolition drive in Shaheen Bagh at the moment, instructed the courtroom that no construction was being demolished within the course of.
When petitioners accused the civic physique of bringing within the bulldozers with out discover, it instructed the courtroom “only encroachments are being removed, no structures are being demolished” and that “no notice was needed for routine encroachments”.
Earlier at the moment, protests erupted in Shaheen Bagh with a whole bunch of individuals, together with girls, opposing the SDMC’s anti-encroachment drive as bulldozers rolled into the realm within the presence of heavy police personnel. Following the protest, the SDMC officers, who have been a part of the anti-encroachment drive, returned with bulldozers with out conducting the train.
Protesters raised slogans towards the BJP-ruled South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) in addition to the central authorities and demanded that the motion ought to be stopped. Some girls protestors additionally stood in entrance of bulldozers to forestall the train.
In December 2019, Shaheen Bagh was the centre of protests and sit-ins towards the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The sit-in was referred to as off in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic had struck town.
Last month, an anti-encroachment drive carried out by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation in Jahangirpuri space, which witnessed violence between two communities on April 16, drew widespread criticism. The Supreme Court needed to intervene to cease the motion there.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”