Protesters at Jantar Mantar said rehabilitation measures should have been takenSeveral residents of Faridabad’s Khori Basti staged a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here on Tuesday demanding that their houses be spared the Supreme Court-ordered demolition. The demonstrators also submitted memoranda addressed to the President, the Prime Minister and the Home Minister seeking revocation of the demolition order to protect the lives of lakhs of people during the pandemic. Holding placards that read, “Save Khori” and “Don’t render labourers homeless during a pandemic”, hundreds of residents of Khori Basti, which is spread over 170-acre forest land in Faridabad, staged the demonstration around 12 p.m. Seeking a remedy to the court order, the residents, in a joint memorandum, said the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad is forcing the residents to vacate their houses citing court order was wrong from a “humanitarian perspective”. ‘Life and death’They further said that the Haryana government should have made arrangements for their rehabilitation before carrying out the demolition.

Source: The Hindu June 29, 2021 17:26 UTC