Flouting SC order, NDMC moves squatters to ridge

Many of them have set up their tents while others are still in the process of doing so and their belongings lie scattered on the ground wrapped up in tarpaulin sheets. There are plastic bags, broken bottles and pieces of paper lying strewn around. And many of the plants and bushes have already been trampled down.

Ram Surat (40) and his family sit on a cot on the pavement. He along with other jhuggi dwellers had been on protest at Jantar Mantar only for a few days before they were shifted out. They have set up a tent of tarpaulin sheets. “There is nothing here. Not even water,” he says.

Since there is no water here, the protesters go to the nearby colony and draw water from a handpump. And they relieve themselves in the ridge itself.

While several Sikh families, who say they are victims of the 1984 riots, were shifted to Rohini in northwest Delhi, the rest of the protestors were bundled into trucks and brought to this part of the ridge.