Supreme Court to hear Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind’s plea against demolitions in U.P. on Thursday
The Hindu
The organisation had earlier filed the plea on the issue of demolition of buildings in the Jahangirpuri area of the national capital.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday the pleas filed by Muslim body Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind seeking directions to the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that no further demolitions of properties of alleged accused of recent violence are carried out in the State.
The Muslim body in its plea has said that no demolitions of properties be carried out without following due process and such exercise is done only after adequate notice.
A vacation bench of Justices A.S. Bopanna and Vikram Nath is likely to take up the matter two days after some former judges and senior advocates wrote to Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana urging him to take suo motu cognizance of alleged incidents of illegal detention, bulldozing of residences, and police action on protestors agitating against certain objectionable remarks made by BJP spokespersons.
The letter petition has been signed by former judges of the top court Justices B. Sudarshan Reddy, V. Gopala Gowda, and A.K. Ganguly, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court AP Shah, former judge of Madras High Court Justice K. Chandru, and former judge of Karnataka High Court Mohammed Anwar.
Among the senior lawyers who have signed the letter petition include Shanti Bhushan, Indira Jaising, C.U. Singh, Sriram Panchu, Prashant Bhushan, and Anand Grover.
It said, “Instead of giving protestors an opportunity of being heard and engaging in peaceful protests, the UP state administration appears to have sanctioned taking violent action against such individuals. The Chief Minister has reportedly officially exhorted officials to take such action against those guilty that it sets an example so that no one commits a crime or take the law into their hands in future.” The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind organisation had earlier filed the plea on the issue of demolition of buildings in the Jahangirpuri area of the national capital.
The fresh applications in the pending petition said that after the last hearing in the matter some new developments have taken place that requires the attention of this Court.
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