New Delhi: The Supreme Court today stayed the Nainital High Court order to remove the encroachments from 29 acres of railway land in Banbhoolpura area in Haldwani. The Apex Court has issued notices to Uttarakhand govt and the Railways. Next hearing is fixed on 7 February.
The Supreme Court today stayed the Nainital High Court order to remove the encroachments from 29 acres of railway land in Banbhoolpura area in Haldwani. pic.twitter.com/nPJaQL7hzt
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On December 20 last year, the High Court bench of Justice R C Khulbe and Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma directed Railways “to use the forces to any extent determining upon need, to evict forthwith the unauthorised occupants after giving them a week’s time to vacate the premises”.
The 176-page HC ruling, commenting on the state’s earlier intervention, noted: “Owing to the certain most reckoned political shield, which was then being provided by the then ruling party for its political gains to the unauthorised occupants, just to secure its vote bank, the State itself has filed a Review Petition, for no subsisting and valid reasons… seeking review of the judgment dated 9th November, 2016, which too was dismissed by the Division Bench vide its judgment dated 10th January, 2017…”
