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The Delhi High Court connected Tuesday refused to interfere with eviction notices issued to residents of the ecologically delicate Yamuna Bazar area.
On May 5, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) issued notices to astir 310 residential structures successful Yamuna Bazar, directing occupants to vacate the country wrong 15 days, failing which demolition enactment could beryllium initiated.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav said the petition filed by the Yamuna Bazar Residents Welfare Association challenging the notices was not maintainable arsenic it lacked “binding affidavits” from residents to “bear the consequences” of the petition.
“This tribunal is not inclined to entertain the writ petition. This petition is not a PIL and has been filed by the relation astatine the lawsuit of residents. In the lack of authorisation, the petition is not maintainable,” the tribunal said portion rejecting the plea. The court, however, clarified that the petitioner would beryllium astatine liberty to record a due petition with authorisation from residents.
In the petition, the relation challenged the “mass eviction” notices issued by the DDMA, asserting that they were based connected “generalised assumptions and speculative apprehension”.
It said the operation connected the ghats was not a “recent encroachment” oregon successful the quality of jhuggis, and that records showed the “long-standing continuity and designation of Panda communities residing and performing spiritual functions astatine the said ghats”.
‘Serious threat’
According to the DDMA, Yamuna Bazar is “inundated during the yearly Yamuna floods”, posing a superior menace to quality life, cattle and property.
On May 18, connected the directions of the DDMA, the Delhi Development Authority issued a caller announcement directing residents to “voluntarily vacate the authorities onshore and region each encroachments, impermanent oregon imperishable structures, and belongings wrong 15 days from the day of contented of the notice”.
