Topic: Demolition
Allahabad HC hears plea of Afreen Fatima’s mother against demolition
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday took up a petition challenging the demolition of a house belonging to the family of prominent Muslim activists Javed Mohammad and Afreen Fatima.
Violence of demolition, politics of precarity
While the debate becomes whether the property was in fact legal or not, the state rationality— the bulldozing of a house of an activist/protestor on charges that it is “illegal”, is rendered normal and legally unsuspected.
Student leaders call recent demolitions, arrests, killings “political vendetta against Muslim protesters”
Prominent Muslim student leader Afreen Fatima, whose family house in Allahabad was bulldozed following her father Javed Mohammed’s arrest in connection with a protest against Islamophobic remarks in the city, and other student leaders Thursday urged the authorities to stop political vendetta against Muslim protesters.
Due process must be followed, says SC on UP demolitions
Observing that “due process must be followed while carrying out demolitions of illegal constructions”, the Supreme Court on Thursday sought the response of the Uttar Pradesh government on Jamiat-Ulama-I-Hind’s plea against the demolition of Muslims in the state.
Video | Afreen Fatima on demolition of her house and incarceration of her father
Speaking to Maktoob, Afreen Fatima decodes what had happened to her family and how it has become a disturbing pattern for Muslims in India.
Indian media gloats as Muslim activist’s house reduces to rubble
The civic authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad razed the house of Muslim activists Javed Muhammed and Afreen Fatima on Sunday; the authorities claimed that it was an unauthorised construction.
