India partially demolishes 185-year-old Noori Masjid citing encroachment on future roadwork

The incident came about days after the Indian Supreme Court docket underlined that bulldozer action is unacceptable below the rule of thumb of law

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11 December, 2024, 10:Forty five am

Final modified: 11 December, 2024, 10:47 am

Piece of the 180-300 and sixty five days-extinct Noori Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh, India used to be demolished on Tuesday(11 Dec) with a bulldozer after authorities sought to “toughen the avenue and assemble drains”.

The incident came about days after the Indian Supreme Court docket underlined that bulldozer action is unacceptable below the rule of thumb of law, says the Hindu.

The share used to be razed at the same time as the mosque committee had approached the Allahabad High Court docket in search of aid.

The demolished share used to be allegedly in-built the final three years over the Banda-Bahraich Express Freeway 13. The foremost building of the mosque used to be untouched and is undamaged. A immense resolution of police personnel, including Fast Action Power, used to be deployed on the distance at some stage in the anti-encroachment force.

“The Public Works Division had given a leer in August to rob away the vogue, built by encroaching upon the avenue, for strengthening the avenue and setting up drains. The committee assured to rob away the encroachment, nonetheless they did not cease it,” said Avinash Tripathi, Extra District Justice of the Peace, Finance and Income, Fatehpur.

The Opposition hit out on the Express authorities alleging “selective” concentrating on. “If a building is 180-300 and sixty five days-extinct, mechanism need to be there to provide protection to them. However, when the design is to selectively target a particular neighborhood aimed at humiliating them, then such incident happens. Such actions novel that institutions of the Express apparatus are no longer with the Muslim neighborhood,” said Shahnawaz Alam, national secretary, Congress.