No Night Shelters In The Country Should Be Demolished In Winter, Rules Apex Court
A photograph in TOI of two children spending a cold night under the open sky made the Supreme Court on Thursday lash out at Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for its apathy and order reconstruction of two night shelters within three days.
PICTURE THAT MELTED HEARTS:As it delivered the order, Supreme Court pointed talked about this photograph that TOI printed on Thursday. The photograph shows two children spending the night in biting cold out on a road
"We do not want to see such photographs again," said a Bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma. To drive the point about the super-seriousness of the apex court home, the Bench made vice-chairman of DDA personally responsible for reconstruction of the night shelters at the places where they were demolished.
With anguish, it remembered a similar insensitive attitude of the Delhi government and the Centre last year resulting in many deaths during cold wave conditions which had forced the SC to step in to the rescue of homeless poor. In fact, the agency photograph that TOI carried had been taken in January this year and was intended to make the point that despite many judicial interventions, the agencies remained indifferent and callous.
The Bench said it would not brook repetition of such unfortunate incidents this year and referred to the news reports published in TOI about demolition of night shelters at Nehru Place and Kalkaji. It said "this indeed is a matter of great anguish, disappointment and astonishment."
with thanks : Times of India : link above for detailed news.
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