Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions.
Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind Padhee reviewed the situation with the district officials and gave a clear direction that the demolition drive against the illegal places of worship shall be taken up without break until the last illegal structure is grounded. The RDC is also learnt to have given another direction to the concerned departments to ensure that re-encroachment of evicted areas are prevented.
"Otherwise, we will have no option other than asking the concerned departments to bear the cost of the eviction of re-encroachment," Padhee said. The district administration has identified at least 207 such places of worship, which have come up illegally on government lands and creating civic problems. The administration, equipped with HC order and HC-guided police enforcement, began the demolition act from May 1, 2013 and by now, four temples have been grounded despite a massive public outcry....
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02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: There seems to be partial relief for the residents of the Campa Cola Compound in Mumbai. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has now postponed the demolition to May 2. The BMC has granted the residents of Worli's Campa Cola compound a 3-day extension. The BMC had issued eviction notices to around 200 families after a Supreme Court judgement stated that around 35 floors in the compound were unauthorised and illegal....
10:54 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued eviction notices to around 200 families in Worli's posh Campa Cola Compound after a landmark Supreme Court judgement. The residents are preparing to face the demolition squads starting Monday that will raze all illegal floors in the cluster of buildings. While the BMC claims the apex court's judgement will give more teeth to its drive against illegal constructions, the ruling is set...
08:51 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Thane: A bandh called by major political parties in Thane against ongoing demolition of illegal structures without providing alternate accommodation to the occupants began with some persons damaging at least 12 buses in the wee hours on Thursday, police said. Parties, including the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena, gave call to the dawn-to-dusk shutdown against the razing of illegal buildings by Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC)...
12:48 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar, who was on a fast for nine days against demolition of a slum in Mumbai, called off her fast late Friday night after Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan assured her that an inquiry into the demolition would be completed within eight days. "Ended the fast after a meaningful resolution of issues following meetings with Secretary Housing & CM. Thanks everyone for support. Zindabaad!" Patkar tweeted...
09:56 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Thane: The Mumbra township in the district, which saw the death of 74 people after an illegal building came down crashing last week, on Friday observed a bandh to protest the ongoing demolition drive and demand rehabilitation of those affected. Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) launched a demolition drive against unauthorised structures in the aftermath of the April 4 tragedy, for which over a dozen persons, including civic officials, have been...
08:03 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar's hunger strike entered its ninth day on Thursday. She is protesting against the demolition of 43 houses in the Golibar slum area. She claims that the residents were promised they would not be evicted and their homes would not be demolished till an enquiry in the case was complete. Activist Aruna Roy has written to Sonia Gandhi, to ask Medha Patkar to end her fast....
08:20 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal and the Centre on a PIL seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into demolition of a 400-year-old mosque. The mosque was laid in the mining lease area of the Jindal company in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. The apex court demanded why there should not be a CBI inquiry into the demolition. Jindal has...
11:03 AM, Apr 09, 2013
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought an explanation from the Centre for the delay in filing appeal against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani and others in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The apex court also pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for delay in challenging Allahabad High Court's ruling which upheld the dropping of conspiracy charges against Advani and others in the case. The SC...
12:34 PM, Apr 02, 2013
BJP President Rajnath Singh will attend the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) meeting that began in Jaipur on Friday. A resolution will be passed seeking protection of Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan after regular reports of temple demolitions and forced conversions. ...
09:24 AM, Mar 16, 2013
The Supreme Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to explain as to why there was a delay in filing the appeal against the Allahabad High Court order in the Babri Masjid demolition case which upheld dropping of conspiracy charges against Bharatiya Janata Party and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders. ...
12:16 PM, Feb 07, 2013
On a day when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav expressed his admiration for the Taj Mahal to foreign delegates at the Jaypee Palace hotel in Agra, his cabinet member and Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan spoke about razing the 17th century architectural wonder. ...
03:38 PM, Jan 28, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who is on a visit to India, on Saturday went for damage control, saying he was not trying to equate the Babri Masjid demolition with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks during his interaction with mediapersons after his arrival in New Delhi. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the Pakistan minister pointed that he had also brought up Shia-Sunni issues in Pakistan as well as the 9/11...
09:20 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Facing criticism over the slow pace of 26/11 trial in Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said attempts were being made to "fast-track" the case and wanted India to give "hard" and "substantive" evidence for the arrest of mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Malik, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, later said an application to fast track the case had been moved in the Lahore High Court...
08:22 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Clarifying his controversial remarks on Babri Masjid, visiting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he never compared the 26/11 attacks with the demolition. "I was simply talking about the ugly events such as Mumbai and so many others," Malik said in a press conference, after his meeting with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. On Friday night, Malik had equated the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya...
03:13 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Stoking a potential controversy, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday night alluded to Babri Masjid demolition, equating the incident with the Mumbai terror attack. Malik said nobody wants to see the recurrence of incidents like Bombay blasts, Samjhauta blasts or Babri Masjid issue. "We do not want any 9/11. We do not want any Bombay blasts, we do not want any Samjhauta Express, we do not want...
11:13 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Rourkela: A 20-year-old man was arrested on charge of uploading an objectionable picture on social networking site Facebook, police said on Saturday. Pintu Sahu was taken to custody by Brahmani Tarang police on Friday for posting an objectionable picture on his Facebook account, police added. The picture, posted on December 6, which was also the 20th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, showed 'Lord Hanuman sitting atop a mosque', they said....
05:33 PM, Dec 08, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal and members of his Aam Aadmi party were physically lifted and taken away by the Delhi Police as they were agitating outside Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's house on Friday. They were protesting against the demolition of 500 houses in Shaheen Bagh, which they claim was done to grab prime land as the residents have legal land papers. Over 100 people started gathering at Dikshit's Motilal...
01:15 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Exactly twenty years back, on December 6, 1992, the Babri Masjid was demolished by a frenzied crowd of Hindu right wing forces. In the communal clashes that followed, thousands were killed across the country. The eyewitnesses recall the day with Sagaika Ghose on Face The Nation. Below is the full transcript of the show: Sagarika Ghose: Today, 20 years ago was a sad day for India's secular state, and a...
11:19 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party staged a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence on Friday morning. AAP workers protested against the demolition of 500 houses in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh. Over 100 people started gathering at Dikshit's Motilal Nehru Marg residence at 7 am while Kejriwal joined them an hour later to protest demolition of their houses in Shaheenbagh. A large number of police personnel were deployed...
08:55 AM, Dec 07, 2012
