Contempt plea over demolition of property: SC seeks Maharashtra authorities’s response | India Information – The Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Monday directed the Maharashtra authorities to file a response relating to the demolition of an unlawful portion of Nagpur riot accused Fahim Khan’s home.
The directive got here in response to a contempt plea difficult the demolition. The petitioner alleged that the motion was linked to an ‘anti-India slogan’ raised throughout a cricket match. The highest court docket has given the Maharashtra authorities 4 weeks to reply and agreed to listen to the contempt plea in opposition to them.
The Nagpur Municipal Company (NMC) on Monday demolished the unlawful double-storied constructing of Fahim Khan at Sanjay Bagh Colony below the Ashi Nagar zone.
The unauthorised residential construction was razed as a part of the civic physique’s crackdown on unlawful constructions. The anti-encroachment squad, backed by heavy police deployment, arrived with two excavators round 10 am to hold out the demolition.
The unlawful building got here to fore after Ashi Nagar zone officers carried out inspection of Khan’s home on March 20. On March 21, the zone has issued a demolition discover. Regardless of a 24-hour ultimatum to demolish the 86.48 sq m construction, Khan’s household didn’t comply. With Khan in police custody, NMC razed the home, registered below his spouse Zahirunnisa Shamim Khan, citing violation of the Maharashtra Regional and City Planning Act, 1966.
Fahim Khan, a frontrunner of the Minority Democratic Social gathering (MDP), is among the many over 100 individuals arrested following the violence in Nagpur on March 17.The unrest started after rumors circulated {that a} ‘chadar’ with spiritual inscriptions had been burned throughout protests led by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), calling for the elimination of Aurangzeb’s tomb in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. The clashes led to widespread stone-pelting and arson throughout a number of areas of Nagpur, leaving 33 law enforcement officials injured, together with three deputy commissioners of police.