Two plea have been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Central government and States to refrain from bulldozing homes or shops of accused in criminal proceedings as extra-legal punitive measure..The pleas filed by Rashid Khan from Rajasthan and Mohammad Hussain from Madhya Pradesh were mentioned before a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan on Friday by Senior Advocate CU Singh and advocate Fauzia Shakil seeking urgent hearing.The Bench agreed to hear the matter on September 2. .The application by Khan, a 60-year-old auto-rickshaw driver from Udaipur, said that his house was demolished by the Udaipur district administration on August 17, 2024. This was after communal clashes broke out in Udaipur and several vehicles were set on fire and markets closed following the issuance of a prohibitory order after a Muslim schoolboy allegedly stabbed his Hindu classmate who later succumbed to his injuries.Khan is the father of the accused schoolboy. .Khan in his application has stated that "his house has been illegally, arbitrarily, and with malafide intentions bulldozed/ demolished in a joint operation by the Regional Forest Officer, Udaipur West, Government of Rajasthan and Udaipur Municipal Corporation on 17-08-2024 in a rushed manner, for the so called illegal ‘Bulldozer/Demolition Justice’.".Similarly, Mohammad Hussain from Madhya Pradesh has alleged that his house and shop was illegally bulldozed by the State administration. .The applications were filed in the case earlier filed by Jamiat Ulama I Hind taking objection to demolition of Muslim homes in Haryana's Nuh, following the Nuh violence between Hindus and Muslims.
Two plea have been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Central government and States to refrain from bulldozing homes or shops of accused in criminal proceedings as extra-legal punitive measure..The pleas filed by Rashid Khan from Rajasthan and Mohammad Hussain from Madhya Pradesh were mentioned before a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan on Friday by Senior Advocate CU Singh and advocate Fauzia Shakil seeking urgent hearing.The Bench agreed to hear the matter on September 2. .The application by Khan, a 60-year-old auto-rickshaw driver from Udaipur, said that his house was demolished by the Udaipur district administration on August 17, 2024. This was after communal clashes broke out in Udaipur and several vehicles were set on fire and markets closed following the issuance of a prohibitory order after a Muslim schoolboy allegedly stabbed his Hindu classmate who later succumbed to his injuries.Khan is the father of the accused schoolboy. .Khan in his application has stated that "his house has been illegally, arbitrarily, and with malafide intentions bulldozed/ demolished in a joint operation by the Regional Forest Officer, Udaipur West, Government of Rajasthan and Udaipur Municipal Corporation on 17-08-2024 in a rushed manner, for the so called illegal ‘Bulldozer/Demolition Justice’.".Similarly, Mohammad Hussain from Madhya Pradesh has alleged that his house and shop was illegally bulldozed by the State administration. .The applications were filed in the case earlier filed by Jamiat Ulama I Hind taking objection to demolition of Muslim homes in Haryana's Nuh, following the Nuh violence between Hindus and Muslims.