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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Supreme Court Ordered to Kill the Poor': Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition -Naomi Barton

'Supreme Court Ordered to Kill the Poor': Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition -Naomi Barton

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published Published on Jul 17, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 18, 2021

-TheWire.in

'When I made this house myself brick by brick, where were they then?'

New Delhi: A few weeks after the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the residential properties in Khori Gaon, bulldozers began to destroy the settlement under police and Army presence. 

Referred to by the Court as an encroachment, the settlement contains over 10,000 homes, with over 1 lakh residents (for scale, this is little under the population of the entire city of Darjeeling in Bengal, according to the 2011 Census). This is a conservative estimate – a UN official has issued a statement where the number is pegged at 2.5 lakhs (which would be just under the entire population of Lucknow circa 2011.) 

There are more than 5,000 pregnant and lactating women and over 20,000 minors in the settlement.

As the bulldozers began their work, there was panic in the lanes as the police went from door to door ordering people to clear out their goods before their house would be torn down.

Samina Khatoun, in her forties, has lived here for over 10 years. She has four children, and works in stitching piecework. She, like several others in her neighbourhood, told The Wire that she had to pay Forest Departments Officials and Police officials while building her house – a form of systemic bribery which led the residents and owners of these houses to believe they had some official protection, as reported earlier.

All of Samina’s worldly goods have been tied into bundles and tossed into a large empty plot, as they wait for the bulldozers one lane away to reach them. 

“For two months we have been screaming ourselves hoarse about this, and nobody cared,” Areefa* says. “There is no point in talking to the media.”

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TheWire.in, 17 July, 2021, https://thewire.in/rights/supreme-court-ordered-to-kill-the-poor-thousands-now-homeless-after-khori-gaon-demolition


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