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CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat blocks bulldozer amid demolition drive in Delhi

Brinda Karat was seen blocking the bulldozer with a Supreme Court order copy in hand, which had ordered the demolition to stop.


As authorities razed several buildings in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri which had witnessed communal violence earlier on April 16 during a Hanuman Jayanti procession, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat stood in front of a bulldozer blocking it. She stood while holding a copy of a Supreme Court order from earlier in the morning of April 20 directing the authorities to stop the demolition drive.


Brinda Karat was seen blocking the bulldozer with a Supreme Court order copy in hand, which had ordered the demolition to stop.
Brinda Karat was seen blocking the bulldozer with a Supreme Court order copy in hand, which had ordered the demolition to stop.


Around noon, Karat was seen blocking the bulldozer with the court order copy in hand. “I have come here because the Supreme Court had given a status quo order at 10.45 am. Our senior lawyer was present in the court and I have the court order. I am here to meet officers and demand the implementation of Supreme Court orders. I am here to stop the bulldozer which is disregarding the law and the Supreme Court order,” Karat told the media.


The ‘anti-encroachment’ drive by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation continued for one-and-a-half hours even after the Supreme Court directed authorities to stop it. A civic official, requesting anonymity, said the drive continued because of the absence of a written order from the Supreme Court, according to PTI. It was stopped as soon as the order was received, the official added. The Supreme Court directed the apex court’s Secretary-General to convey the earlier order to stop demolition in riot-hit Jahangirpuri to the NDMC Mayor and the Delhi Police Commissioner immediately.


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