‘Jhuggis’, Compensation, Religious Structures: A Look at Railway Land Encroachment Cases in India
1 year, 11 months ago

‘Jhuggis’, Compensation, Religious Structures: A Look at Railway Land Encroachment Cases in India

News 18  

The Indian Railways claims to have 29 acres of land under encroachment in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani, where close to 50,000 people were directed to be “removed” by the high court. Here are some other cases from recent times, which show how illegal occupation is a multipronged issue in India where the sight of slums, or jhuggis’, along railway tracks is common: The Surat-Udhna to Jalgaon Railway Line project in Gujarat remains incomplete due to unauthorised structures on railway property for at least 2.65 km, said the Supreme Court in December 2021, while hearing pleas raised against issues related to removal of encroachment from railway land in Gujarat and Haryana. According to report published in Hindustan Times, the court was hearing a petition filed by Premier Ltd seeking a direction to Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, to release compensation amount of Rs 21.71 crore for 28,672 sq m of the company’s land at Bhopar in Thane district. According to a report published in Times of India, there are around 13,839 such structures occupying 37.29 hectares of land on the Central Railway, with most in Kurla, Mankhurd and Kurla-Trombay line. In December 2022, during an anti-encroachment drive in Roorkee, railway authorities placed pillars outside now-hospitalised cricketer Rishabh Pant’s house to demarcate railway land outside Dhandera railway station.

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CR removes encroachments on harbour line
1 year ago

CR removes encroachments on harbour line

Hindustan Times  

Navi Mumbai CR removes encroachments on harbour line Over 50 odd encroachments that existed on the Sanpada-Juinagar railway line have been cleared. In a special drive undertaken by the central railways, on Sunday during the mega block, encroachments spread on the entire stretch from Sanpada to Belapur were removed. “Sectional engineers had conducted the survey and found that these were …

Anti-encroachment drive in J&K halted after Centre steps in
1 year, 10 months ago

Anti-encroachment drive in J&K halted after Centre steps in

The Hindu  

The month-long anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir to retrieve government land has been halted following an intervention by the Union Home Ministry, a government source told The Hindu. A J&K administration official, however, denied that the drive had been halted and said that “geo-tagging and geo-referencing” of the retrieved land was going on. The official said the drive to …

India top court stays demolition of over 4,000 homes in Haldwani
1 year, 11 months ago

India top court stays demolition of over 4,000 homes in Haldwani

Al Jazeera  

More than 50,000 people, most of them Muslims, faced the demolition of their homes which allegedly encroached on railway land. On December 20, an order passed by the high court of the northern state declared 4,365 houses adjacent to the railway line in Haldwani’s Banbhulpura colony “illegal” and therefore to be demolished. Rights activist Shadab Alam, also a resident of …

U’khand: Haldwani encroachers protest against court’s eviction order, offer namaz on streets
1 year, 11 months ago

U’khand: Haldwani encroachers protest against court’s eviction order, offer namaz on streets

Op India  

On Saturday, thousands of Muslim residents in Haldwani staged a protest on December 28 against the clearance of illegal encroachments on railway land in accordance with a High Court ruling. One such video of the said protest was shared by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who alleged that the government’s move would render around 4,500 families, who have illegally encroached …

Railway Land Encroachment Menace: Allahabad High Court Issues Slew Of Directions To Railway Authorities
2 years, 11 months ago

Railway Land Encroachment Menace: Allahabad High Court Issues Slew Of Directions To Railway Authorities

Live Law  

Observing that the railways' administration has miserably failed in its duty to prevent encroachment over its land, the Allahabad High Court today issued a slew of directions to eradicate the menace of encroachment over the Railway land.The Bench of Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Ashutosh Srivastava perceived the encroachment over the Railway land as a menace/hindrance to development. Observing that …

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