NEW DELHI, March 19 -- The Delhi high court on Monday said that "forced" and "unannounced" eviction of slum dwellers without following proper guidelines is contrary to the law.
A bench of justice S Muralidhar and justice Vibhu Bakhru said the agencies such as DDA, the civic authorities and others should first conduct a survey and consult the dwellers before evicting the people there.
The court also said that once a slum becomes eligible for rehabilitation, the land owning agencies would "cease" to view the dwellers as "illegal encroachers".
"Forced eviction of jhuggi dwellers, unannounced, in co-ordination with the other agencies, and without compliance with the above steps, would be contrary to the law...," the bench said.
The judgment...