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A seat of Justices B R Gavai, K V Viswanathan and Prashant Kumar Mishra noted that the petition by the National Federation of Indian Women was based mostly connected paper reports and lacked immoderate important grounds to beryllium that its orders had been violated. (Express Archives)
The Supreme Court connected Thursday dismissed a contempt petition against officials of the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand alleging that unlawful demolitions were carried retired successful these states, successful usurpation of the court’s erstwhile orders.
A seat of Justices B R Gavai, K V Viswanathan and Prashant Kumar Mishra noted that the petition by the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) was based mostly connected paper reports and lacked immoderate important grounds to beryllium that its orders had been violated.
In the lack of factual proof, the tribunal dismissed the contempt plea, ruling that relying connected media reports without presenting due grounds was insufficient to prosecute specified a case.
“We don’t privation to unfastened a Pandora box,” the Bench said.
During the hearing, the bench, aft listening to submissions from Additional Solicitor General K M Natraj, representing Uttar Pradesh, and Additional Advocate General Shiv Mangal Sharma, representing Rajasthan, questioned however the petitioner was personally aggrieved by the alleged demolitions.
The lawsuit successful Rajasthan revolved astir the alleged demolition of the location of an accused progressive successful an onslaught connected 10 RSS workers during a Sharad Purnima lawsuit connected October 17. The petitioner claimed that the demolition, which took spot connected October 20, violated Supreme Court directives issued connected September 17 and October 1 this year. These orders had stated that nary demolitions should hap crossed the state without archetypal obtaining the Supreme Court’s permission.
However, the tribunal successful the supra orders clarified that the regularisation connected demolitions did not use to unauthorised structures located successful nationalist spaces, specified arsenic roads, streets, footpaths, oregon areas adjacent railway lines oregon h2o bodies. Moreover, demolitions carried retired nether a tribunal bid were besides exempt from this direction.
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