HC stays demolition in Lucknow’s Akbar Nagar until March 31, permits residents to shift belongings
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket on Wednesday stayed demolition in Akbar Nagar right here until March 31, permitting residents to shift their belongings throughout this era. Thereafter, the Lucknow Growth Authority (LDA) shall be free to demolish homes within the slum.
Round 74 BPL card holders of Akbar Nagar had filed a writ petition within the excessive court docket, looking for a keep on the event authority’s demolition drive in Akbar Nagar. (FILE PHOTO)
The excessive court docket additionally directed the event authority to deliver down the registration price for PM Awas to ₹1000 from ₹5000.
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If extraordinarily poor natives of Akbar Nagar are nonetheless not in a position to prepare lodging for themselves, then they’re free to method the chief minister for aid, the court docket added.
A division bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Om Prakash Shukla on Wednesday delivered the judgment in open court docket.
“All residents of Akbar Nagar 1 and a pair of shall vacate the disputed premises on or earlier than the midnight of March 31 and thereafter, it shall be open for the respondent-authorities to clear the stated space,” the court docket stated.
The excessive court docket had earlier reserved the order after finishing the listening to on February 26.
Round 74 BPL card holders of Akbar Nagar had filed a writ petition within the excessive court docket, looking for a keep on the event authority’s demolition drive in Akbar Nagar. The drive was being carried out because the slum has been illegally constructed on authorities land. There are round 1400 homes within the slum.
“We discover some drive in petitioners. It’s, subsequently, supplied that any particular person being rehabilitated from Akbar Nagar slums making use of for EWS lodging, shall be supplied such an lodging,” the court docket stated.
“Additional, we discover that these individuals making use of for the EWS flats might face some monetary constraints additionally. We, subsequently, present that EWS flats shall be supplied on preliminary registration deposit of ₹1000 as an alternative of ₹5000,” the court docket added.
Additional, in case these making use of for the EWS lodging, for some unavoidable circumstances, are unable to pay their instalments inside 10 years, respondent authorities (LDA) shall lengthen the interval by a most of 5 years.
“In case any EWS allottee nonetheless faces issue even to pay the stated installments, it is going to be open for such an individual to maneuver an acceptable utility earlier than the chief minister of the state, who shall take into account and grant acceptable aid to such deserving bona fide particular person from the chief minister’s beneficiary fund or from some other acceptable funds or schemes as relevant for the advantage of the poor every so often,” the court docket stated.
The court docket additionally prolonged the advantage of rehabilitation scheme to different residents of Akbar Nagar who haven’t approached the court docket.
The purposes below the rehabilitation scheme shall be filed by the petitioners and different equally located individuals inside a interval of two weeks from as we speak (March 6) and, concurrently, the LDA will begin allotting flats for rehabilitation and the complete means of shifting shall be accomplished by March 31.
