The rule of law be damned, rather simply bulldoze it. It’s the “New India” that the national capital too gets a taste of. On Wednesday last, in a sequence to the communal riots in Jahangiripuri in northwest Delhi on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanthi on Sunday, the BJP-led North Delhi Municipal Corporation took a leaf out of other BJP-ruled States.

With no notices issued, bulldozers were run over houses and establishments of a particular community under the garb of ‘illegal encroachments’. A common pretext for a BJP administration to target the “rioters” as was done in Madhya Pradesh days ago, an idea picked from BJP-ruled UP.

What is shockingly worse is that authorities didn’t care a hoot that the Supreme Court had ordered them to pause, maintain the status quo, following the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, petitioning it early morning saying “this is completely unauthorised, unconstitutional, demolition.” It did as it was also told that while the demolition was planned to start at 2 pm, it started at 9 am “knowing that we are going to mention it”. The court obliged. But at noon, the Jamiat counsel had to reach out to CJI saying “Despite the world knowing that this court passed orders, they are not stopping…They say the order is not communicated…”

Brazen dirty tricks! The top court must act. Accepting a big boo to its face shall bulldoze the faith that citizens have in the last surviving bastion of our democratic society.

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