supreme court raps U.P. civic body over demolitions
New Delhi, April 2 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj Development Authority to pay a compensation of Rs.10 lakh each for demolishing five residential structures in March 2021, denouncing the demolitions as "inhuman", "shocking", and a blatant violation of the "right to shelter" and "due process". The state authorities had wrongly linked the land to slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed, leading the bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan to castigate civic body's actions as "illegal". "These cases shock our conscience.," observed the bench. P6...
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