Security personnel drive a bulldozer from in front of Nanpara Masjid during Friday prayers after the imposition of Section 144 in Kanpur.
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- An affidavit was filed as per the petitions filed by Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, a Muslim body
- The UP government said that the petitioner has “deliberately confused” the true facts.
- It further said that the petitioner Cheri chose an instance of demolition in the city of Prayagraj.
The Uttar Pradesh government has told the Supreme Court that illegal structures were demolished by its Kanpur and Prayagraj municipal bodies as per law and not related to punishing those involved in violent protests following remarks by two BJP leaders on Prophet Mohammad Were. In an affidavit filed pursuant to petitions filed by Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, a Muslim body, the state government said, “The said demolitions mentioned in the interactive applications have been carried out by the Local Development Authority, which is a statutory autonomous body, UP Urban Planning and Development.” Act, 1972, as per their regular effort against unauthorized/illegal construction and encroachment, independent of the State Administration as per law.
It pointed out that the apex court had recently in a writ petition filed by a political party in relation to the alleged demolition at Shaheen Bagh here, held that only the affected party and the political parties should not come forward and the petition should be allowed to be withdrawn. needed. High Court. “Furthermore, it is submitted that even if any such alleged demolition action is to be challenged, the same is to be done by the affected party before the High Court and not this Court”, the state government said. The state government said it is taking “extra-legal punitive measures” as “extra-legal punitive measures” by the petitioners to name the state’s supreme constitutional functionaries and the legitimate actions of the local development authority against the accused persons targeting a particular religious community. Strong exception to attempt to give.
It said that all such allegations are absolutely false and this is vehemently denied and urged the court to apprehend the petitioner for the said false allegations without any ground before this court. The UP government further said that the petitioner has wrongly chosen to link the two demolition works of illegal construction in the properties of one Ishtiaq Ahmed and one Riyaz Ahmed, which took place in Kanpur on June 11, 2022. riot; However, it failed to note that in both the cases, parts of the two illegal/non-compliant structures had occurred; That both the buildings were under construction and were not as per the permission granted.
The state government said the petitioner Jamiat-Ulama-e-Hind has “deliberately obfuscated” the actual facts to paint a nefarious picture of alleged malpractice on the part of the administration and that too without disclosing any facts on the affidavit. Similarly, it is held that the petitioner, seeking relief, has chosen an instance of demolition in Prayagraj city in connection with the demolition of the house of Javed Mohammad on June 12. “The petitioner has failed to disclose the fact that proceedings under the Act and Rules of 1973 by Prayagraj Development Authority against the said person for illegal construction without any sanction, unauthorized use of residential land as an office, riots was started long before the events,” it said.
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