The Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) has sought police backup to hold out a two-day anti-encroachment drive to take away alleged unlawful constructions on the periphery of the Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam at ITO, Delhi’s greatest graveyard for Muslims, a spokesperson for the civic physique mentioned on Tuesday.
In a communication despatched to the Delhi Police by the chief engineer of the MCD central zone, the civic physique mentioned that needed alternative has been supplied to the encroachers to point out their paperwork to show their possession however none of them might submit possession proofs. “Accordingly, an encroachment elimination program has been mounted for June 22 and 23, 2022. It’s requested to offer ample police drive together with woman police for sustaining regulation and order,” the communication mentioned.
A senior police officer, who requested to not be named, mentioned, “The police are obligation sure to offer safety and help at any time when any demolition motion is carried out. If the MCD carries out the demolition drive tomorrow and day after, police help shall be supplied to them.”
An MCD spokesperson on Tuesday mentioned that the civic physique has earmarked greater than 50 constructions on public land behind the ITO workplace space.
“Practically 50% of the squatters have already vacated the place. The encroachment elimination motion is in pursuance of instructions of the Delhi excessive courtroom and the MCD has ensured all authorized measures. The other occasion [squatters] has misplaced circumstances in all boards and an in depth listening to has been given some months again to every occasion. The encroachment elimination drive has been deliberate after listening to these events as no proof of possession was supplied by them. It’s a public street,” the spokesperson added.
Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam is unfold over an space of 45 acres additionally served as one of many designated burial floor for Covid sufferers within the metropolis.
Haji Qayumuddin, who heads the managing committee of the graveyard, mentioned that the burial floor administration has nothing to do with these constructions and they’re situated on the boundary of the burial floor. “This land [encroached area] doesn’t belong to the burial floor. This was once footpath a number of many years again and apparently the constructions have come up on merchandising Tehbazari area. We’ve got nothing to do with these constructions and now we have no objection if the MCD plans to take motion in opposition to them,” he added.
The municipal company mentioned on Tuesday that it’s a “routine encroachment elimination drive”.
The encroachment elimination drives, an in any other case a routine operate of the civic physique, had come underneath the scanner after a controversial demolition drive by the erstwhile North MCD on April 20 in north-west Delhi’s Jahangirpuri space, 4 days after communal violence broke on the market throughout a spiritual process
The MCD had additionally carried out an anti-encroachment drive at a park close to gate #1 of Jama Masjid on June 16. In keeping with MCD officers, the drive was carried out on the orders of the Delhi excessive courtroom. In an announcement issued later, the MCD mentioned {that a} wall of the park was additionally partly broken throughout the motion. “Through the encroachment elimination, the wall of the park obtained partly broken, which is being repaired by the upkeep division,” the assertion mentioned.
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