Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 20: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday agreed to hear appeals against a ‘anti-encroachment’ sweep in the Jahangirpuri neighbourhood of the national capital, which was rocked by violence over the weekend when two communities clashed over a Hanuman Jayanti parade.
The court agreed to accept petitions challenging the demolition, but said it would not intervene with the process at this point.
Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi instructed the lawyers who had raised the issue of urgent listing and relief to file their petitions and said, “I am not saying anything (on stopping the demolition) but that they (authorities) should be ready (with instructions).”
Sanghi also stated that the petitions will be considered today once they were filed, but that ‘nothing new’ had been filed and that the push is ‘already in the works.’ Residents whose structures were to be demolished were to be ‘protected’ until 2 p.m., according to a lawyer for one of the aggrieved parties. She claimed that some people have still not gone home as a result of the weekend’s violence.
