No determination of their leases and no plan to rehabilitate or compensate them: the Allahabad High Court has called the Arbitrary Eviction Of Ayodhya Shopkeepers to make way for a government hospital highly condemnable, and wants the State to explain how it will rehabilitate or compensate them. Lucknow: Six shopkeepers at the Sitapur Eye Hospital […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a challenge to the demolition of structures raised on agricultural land within the Chandigarh Periphery ‘Control Area’, holding that a General Power of Attorney or similar document confers no title and cannot regularise unauthorised construction. Livelihood, the Court held, cannot be a licence to violate the periphery-control law. Only the unauthorised structures, not the land, are to be removed.
