The hammer of the High Court fell heavily on Yogi’s bulldozer in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, yes, this is not a story but a reality. There is a big drain of the municipality in Jhandatar locality of the municipality area of Ghazipur, through which almost half of the city’s water goes into the Ganga. Ten years ago, three illegal houses were built on that drain, due to which the drain was not being cleaned and people were very upset. Now the hammer is being used to demolish this illegally constructed house.
Due to houses built illegally over the drain, the entire locality becomes a pond during the rainy season. Regarding this problem, the local people appealed for help from the District Magistrate to the municipal officials. However, these people used to postpone the matter every time by making the excuse of High Court stay on the house. People were very upset about this and now they did not even trust the leaders.
High Court order not followed
Regarding these problems, two people of the area filed a public interest litigation in the High Court. At the same time, during the hearing of the petition, the High Court sought information about the compliance of the instructions given in the year 2019, in which the High Court had directed the Municipality to remove the encroachments by talking to the encroachers. But due to local leadership, the municipality did not even follow the instructions of the High Court.
The case will be heard on November 6
The municipality several times issued instructions to the illegal tenants to vacate their houses, but no one did. Once again the date of this case is on 6th November in the High Court and before that the municipality is trying to show its good work in the High Court by demolishing this encroachment. Due to which, since Sunday morning, dozens of hammers have started working instead of bulldozers under the supervision of municipal officials and other district level officials.
Local people happy after hammering on encroachment
As soon as the hammer was struck, a wave of happiness spread throughout the neighborhood. Because of the problem with which the people here were troubled for the last 10 years. There seems to be hope of getting rid of that problem after using the hammer. The local people have also announced to celebrate in the entire locality and feed sweets to each other after the hammer blows and the encroachment on the drain is completely cleared.
