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print versionPEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES, Delhi
Delhi office : 3821/7, Kanhaiya Nagar, Tri Nagar, Delhi-110091
Founder: Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
National President: Ravi Kiran Jain (U.P.); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamilnadu); Treasurer: Surendra Kumar (Bihar). Vice-Presidents: (all names in alphabetic order) Binayak Sen (Chhattisgarh); Daisy Narian (Ms.) (Bihar); G. Saraswathi (Ms.) TN); Mihir Desai (Mumbai); N.D. Pancholi (Delhi); Sanjay Parikh (Delhi). Secretaries: Kavita Srivastava (Ms) (Rajasthan); Rohit Prajapati (Gujarat); R.Murali (Tamilnadu); Sudha Bharadwaj (Chhattisgarh); S.Balamurugan, (Tamilnadu); Y.J. Rajendra (Karnataka). National Organising Secretaries: Ajay T.G. (Chhattisgarh); Arjun Sheoran (Punjab); Arvind Avinash (Jharkhand); Deepika (Ms.) (Karnataka); Kailash Meena (Rajasthan); Nishath Hussain (Ms.) (Rajasthan).
Tel. (011) 2275 0014; E.mails: pucldelhi[at]gmail.com & ndpancholi44[at]gmail.com
20th April 2022
To
The Assistant Commissioner,
Civil Lines Zone,
North Delhi Municipal Corporation,
Delhi.
PLEASE STOP THE JOINT ENCROACHMENT REMOVAL PROGRAMME IN JAHANGIRPURI AS THE SAME IS UNLAWFUL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
A letter dt. 19th April 2022 written by you to The DCP North West has been brought to our notice in which you have talked about Special Joint Encroachment Removal programme to be initiated in Jahangirpuri and have sought police help. In this connection we bring to your notice that the programme envisaged by you is totally unlawful and unconstitutional. The clear message of our Constitution enjoins upon the governments and municipal administrations to provide homes to the homeless and jobs to the jobless, not that these institutions should embark upon a policy which render hundreds and thousands of poor people homeless and jobless. The issue of removal of encroachments have been debated number of times in our courts, where Supreme Court and High courts have issued number of guidelines in this connection. The central point of these guidelines is that the alleged encroachers cannot be removed without giving the poor persons individual notices and without providing them alternative accommodation. Please refer to the case of ’Sudama Singh & others Versus Govt. of NCT & others, Writ Petition No. WP(C) 8904/2009 which sums up the legal position in this connection. Moreover your encroachment drive is also against the motto of our esteemed Prime Minister "SABKA SAATH SABKA VIKAS".
Your proposed drive is certainly a clear anti-thesis of ’SABKA VIKAS".
We therefore request you to think again and stop your drive which is totally unlawful and against the norms enshrined in the chapters of fundamental rights and Directive Principles of our State policy in our Constitution as well a number of pronouncements of our courts.
N.D. Pancholi, President
Sheoraj Singh, General Secretary
Amit Srivastav, Secretary
CC: DCP (North West)
Delhi Police. For information.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered status-quo on the demoliton drive started by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation against alleged encroachers in the Jahangirpuri area, where riots took place last week.
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