Patna43 minutes ago
The people of Nepali Nagar in the capital Patna celebrated the festival amidst broken windows, fallen walls, broken ceilings and scattered items. Dainik Bhaskar’s team reached Nepali Nagar to know from the people there how they are celebrating the festival. The pain expressed by the women present there… Kanchan Singh of the same locality told that her house was also demolished without any notice. Today we are awake all night protecting our belongings. It is very difficult when it rains. Many marriages are fixed in this locality, those who are capable, they can get married anywhere outside. But the marriages of those who are poor are falling apart, no one wants to bring a procession to this ruin.
Kanchan ji made serious allegations against the DM of Patna and said that the DM deliberately marked and demolished his house by asking the names of the people. The people who knew him did not even have any scratches in his house. Leaving the house from all sides, our house has been targeted in the middle. This is a well thought out conspiracy of the government. Everyone is celebrating Dussehra even till the Chief Minister, but we have become a living corpse.
A woman of this locality even said that the respect is gone, when there is no home left, then where is the respect left? Night and day we are in the hope that everything will be fine. Took the heat, but how to survive in the cold in this broken house. There is neither any worship nor any festival for us. The government has cheated, the court is expected.
Gajmoti Devi of this locality started crying while talking. They say that the house was demolished. After breaking the house, the son left the house and went away. The son said why are you here now? Today it is difficult to eat, if people around us give food to us, then we eat it. How long will the living by demanding from the people go on. If the government had killed us better than breaking the house, then this situation would not have happened today.
The Patna High Court had stayed the encroachment removal action by the district administration in the Nepali Nagar area of Rajiv Nagar. The Single Bench of Judge Sandeep Kumar, while hearing the petition of Rajendra Kumar Singh and others, ordered the District Magistrate and Housing Board Management of Patna to stop the action against the said encroachment. Senior advocate Basant Kumar Choudhary and advocate SBK Mangalam had sought a hearing before the division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol, describing the incident as an urgent matter. The High Court had fixed the matter for hearing at 4 pm. The court also ordered that no additional arrests will be made on the basis of whatever FIR has been registered. At present, no FIR will be registered.
The action taken by the government to remove encroachments in the Nepali Nagar area is against the law. The court had expressed surprise over the demolition of the houses of the people who had been building houses here for years. The petitioner said that the state government and the housing board have illegally demolished dozens of houses without issuing any notice. Hundreds of people became homeless overnight. Most of the people whose houses were demolished are poor. They have no other option of livelihood. They are not getting even food and water. The people here are forced to live by death.