Jama Masjid case: HC dismisses petition

  • 06/12/2004

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

The MCD today informed the Delhi High Court that it was not dispossessing licensed squatters from Jama Masjid in the Walled City in New Delhi and clarified that the ongoing drive was only aimed at removing illegal constructions and encroachments from the area. "We are neither dispossessing licensed squatters nor removing them. We are only taking action against illegal constructions,' MCD counsel Anup Bagai clarified before a Bench of Acting Chief Justice B A Khan and Justice M B Lokur. The court was hearing a batch of petitions filed by 169 squatters from Coat Market and Indira Market, who had sought a direction to restrain MCD from dispossessing or removing them.