Delhi HC postpones Madrasi Camp demolition to June 1, says need to relocate its residents before monsoon
The court said that the relocation of Madrasi Camp residents is of “utmost urgency and significance, particularly in light of the approaching monsoon season”
The authorities had issued a demolition notice to the squatters to remove encroachments and unauthorised construction on the Barapullah drain to de-clog it (Express File/Aban Usmani) The Delhi High Court has postponed the demolition of the unauthorised Madrasi Camp — a jhuggi-jhopdi (JJ) cluster located on the Barapullah drain bank near Jangpura — to June 1, nearly three weeks after the scheduled date of May 10.
The authorities had issued a demolition notice to the squatters to remove encroachments and unauthorised construction on the Barapullah drain to de-clog it.
A bench of Justices Prathiba Singh and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora was hearing a bunch of applications filed by Madrasi Camp dwellers, seeking the court’s intervention in their relocation to Narela.
The court said that the relocation of Madrasi Camp residents is of “utmost urgency and significance, particularly in light of the approaching monsoon season”. It also maintained that while the “clearance of Barapullah drain was imperative to prevent waterlogging during monsoon”, the “rehabilitation of Madrasi Camp dwellers is also essential for the de-clogging of the Barapullah drain”.
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