Delhi authority demolition row: Women nabbed for throwing chilli powder at cops

Some girls protesters had been detained on Sunday once they allegedly threw purple chilli powder on police employees deployed in the course of an anti-encroachment force here, officers stated. Nearly 1,two hundred rectangular metres of presidency land changed into reclaimed in the course of the anti-encroachment force withinside the Mehrauli Archaeological Park region on Friday, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) stated in a announcement on Saturday.

The DDA has been sporting out the force due to the fact Friday amid police security, triggering protests from neighborhood citizens and a blame-sport among the AAP and the BJP. On Sunday, a collection of girls staged a protest towards the demolition force and alleged that they had been lathicharged through police employees deployed on the spot.

Denying the allegations, a senior officer stated, “There changed into no lathicharge and no person changed into injured. They (protesters) had been obstructing the DDA employees and the police. “Some girls threw purple chilli powder on police employees and some of them were detained. Suitable felony movement can be taken.” The DDA endured with the anti-encroachment workout on Sunday.

On Friday, the city frame stated, “During the demolition programme on 10.02.2023, about 1,two hundred sq m of presidency/DDA land has been reclaimed from the encroachers so far, and the workout is directly to reclaim the relaxation of the encroached authorities land for its rightful use through all residents as a park.”

The movement changed into taken as a part of a demolition force with a view to keep until March 9, officers stated on Friday. It comes a month beforehand of a G20 assembly deliberate to be hosted on the archaeological park in south Delhi.

“The courtroom docket has withinside the beyond taken notice of the encroachment withinside the anciental park in reference to more than one cases, and plenty of humans withinside the previous few a long time have constructed unauthorised systems, some, even five-storey or six-storey, withinside the region. A note changed into issued final December and pasted on partitions to alert humans,” a senior DDA professional had stated.

The DDA began out the force from Friday in coordination with Delhi Police to put off encroachment from its land at Ladha Sarai village in Mehrauli Archaeological Park. The park is domestic to approximately fifty five monuments below safety of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), kingdom archeological branch of Delhi and the DDA, the authority stated on Saturday.

Earlier, a demolition order dated December 12, 2022, changed into pasted at the partitions of unlawful systems at the land along side markings with guidelines to the “encroachers to put off all of the unauthorised creation from the land in query inside 10 days”, it stated.

According to the note, the land on which the demolition is being completed is a part of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park and the “present unauthorised encroachment is performing as a quandary to the improvement of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park”. The sprawling park is dotted with anciental monuments and, at the same time as the region falls below the DDA, the history systems are maintained through the ASI.

Official reassets stated the ASI is likewise running in complete swing for the G20 meet on the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, deliberate to be held in early March. The High Court of Delhi has, on many occasions, directed the authorities government to steady, shield and maintain the region falling below Mehrauli Archaeological Park through getting rid of unlawful encroachment, the announcement stated.

“The branch is taking the movement to put off the unauthorised/unlawful encroachment from the authorities land and additionally to steady the Mehrauli Archaeological Park from encroachment,” it stated.

A “demarcation workout have been completed as in line with route of the High Court” withinside the presence of DDA and Waqf Board representatives through the Revenue Department of Delhi in December 2021, it stated.