Reader’s Mail - Hyderabad

Illegal structures Civic bodies and citizens welcomed the Supreme Court ruling way back in 2013 when shrines and statues on public roads were banned as it addressed a common hazard in all our cities a

Civic bodies and citizens welcomed the Supreme Court ruling way back in 2013 when shrines and statues on public roads were banned as it addressed a common hazard in all our cities and towns. Unauthorised religious structures, often thinly disguised cases of land grab, had sprung up on public and private land obstructing roads and putting residents to inconvenience. Unfortunately, local political interests and ‘religious sentiments’ are standing in the way of removal of such structures as was evident in the report on a park being encroached in your columns. Will there be any action on this front? J.S. Acharya, Nacharam