Topic: Demolition
“Buildings belonging to particular community brought down as exercise of ethnic cleansing?” asks HC on Nuh demolitions
While staying the demolition drive carried out by the Haryana authorities in violence-hit Nuh and Gurugram, the Punjab & Haryana High Court observed that whether the buildings belonging to a particular community in Nuh and Gurgaon are being brought down by the authorities under the guise of law and order problem and an exercise of “ethnic cleansing is being conducted by the State.”
HC stays Haryana government’s demolition drive in Nuh
The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Monday stayed the Haryana government’s demolition drive in Nuh.
Days after violence, shanties, houses, shops of Muslims demolished in Haryana’s Nuh
The authorities demolished scores of houses, shops and other structures of Muslims in Haryana’s Nuh district, days after the violence broke out in the state killing six people, including two home guards and a mosque imam.
Student leader Afreen Fatima marks one year since her home bulldozed, father’s arrest
“Abbu has been in jail for one year. We have been homeless for one year. Navigating life itself has become hard,” summarises Muslim student leader Afreen Fatima, whose life was overturned a year ago, when her father, mother and sister got detained by Uttar Pradesh police.
SP leader Atiq Ahmed‘s aide house in UP bulldozed
The Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) on Wednesday started demolishing the house of kin of Samajwadi Party leader Atiq Ahmed who, along with his wife Shaista Parveen, their two sons and his brother Ashraf, has been named as accused in the Umesh Pal murder case.
Assam: 2,500 Bengali Muslim families go homeless as govt launches demolition drive, two mosques among bulldozed
Authorities in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Tuesday launched a drive to evict over 2,500 families. Most of the persons living in the area are Bengali-speaking Muslims and have been primarily engaged in cultivation.
