Several shops demolished in Haryana’s Nuh District; read why

On Saturday, municipal authorities in Haryana’s Nuh district razed more than 45 commercial buildings because they were illegally built. The stores on Nalhar Road near the SKHM Government Medial College were destroyed amid heavy police presence.

Sub-divisional magistrate Ashwani Kumar claimed the action was made at the request of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, saying that some of the shops belonged to people involved in the Nuh communal violence.

“The encroachment covered 2.5 acres.” It was all an unauthorised building. “It has been discovered that some of these individuals were involved in the recent clashes,” the official stated.

A team from the district administration’s enforcement wing, led by the local SDM and town planning department officials, arrived at the market area near SHKM Government Medical College and began the demolition drive with the assistance of various earth-moving machines and people.

“More than 45 illegally built commercial shops are being demolished on Nalhar road,” Haryana’s Nuh District Town Planner told ANI.

Six persons were killed in violence in Muslim-dominated Nuh on Monday after a Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) parade was attacked by mobs and escalated to Gurugram and its surrounding districts.

On Thursday, authorities destroyed approximately 250 shanties on encroached government land in Tauru town and adjacent places in neighbouring Nuh district. While outgoing Nuh Deputy Commissioner Prashant Panwar denied any connection between the demolition and the current violence, home minister Anil Vij later implied differently.

“Ilaj mein bulldozer bhi ek karavayi hai (bulldozer is part of the therapy),” the minister says at a press conference in Chandigarh.

According to Vij, 202 persons have been arrested, and 80 have been placed in preventive prison concerning the Nuh communal violence. He further said that how bullets were fired from hillocks and stones gathered on building rooftops indicated that Nuh’s violence was pre-planned.

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