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Supreme Court bench has listed Rehabilitation/ Relocation matter of the Slum Dwellers of Sarojini Nagar on 25th April 2022.

Delhi High Court issued notice seeking response from the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board upon a plea by a man who is aggrieved by the fact that the DUSIB dispossessed him from his ‘jhuggi’ in the year 2012, without providing alternative residential accommodation, and posted it for November 8, 2021.

Delhi High Court while hearing PIL filed by one resident of the area asked the Delhi Government to treat the plea as a representation seeking directions against alleged illegal encroachment within the public parks around the area near the Jama Masjid situated in the national capital.

The slum-dwellers of JJ Basti in New Delhi said they had been issued notice on March 23 and a week later some 10-12 hutments were demolished by the Department of Forests and Wildlife. They have now sought rehabilitation.

The Supreme Court has been approached by 16 slum dwellers seeking impleadment in the MC Mehta case in which a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra had ordered removal of jhuggis near the New Delhi area, to address environment related issues.

Senior Congress leader and former minister Ajay Maken has moved the Supreme Court, asking it to make government bodies ensure that slum dwellers are rehabilitated before the removal of 48,000 illegal dwellings (jhuggis) alongside railway tracks in Delhi.

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