{"id":48426,"date":"2017-05-27T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48426"},"modified":"2017-05-27T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T21:28:00","slug":"can-graveyards-delhi-shifted-asks-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/can-graveyards-delhi-shifted-asks-delhi-hc","title":{"rendered":"Can graveyards in Delhi be shifted, asks Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47337\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47337\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/man-gets-jail-failure-abide-sc-order-alimony\/delhi-high-court-79\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?fit=296%2C170&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"296,170\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"delhi high court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?fit=296%2C170&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?fit=296%2C170&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47337 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?resize=296%2C170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Can graveyards in Delhi be shifted, asks Delhi HC\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?w=296&amp;ssl=1 296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/delhi-high-court.jpg?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can graveyards in Delhi be shifted, asks Delhi HC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Delhi High Court today asked the authorities to explore the possibility of shifting all graveyards in the national capital to a &#8220;proper place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The court also sought to know from the authorities how graveyards were maintained in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are graves in roads, people sit there, animals sit there and defecate and make them dirty. These graves should be relocated to a proper property. Is there any possibility of shifting the graves to a proper place,&#8221; a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar.<\/p>\n<p>It also said, &#8220;you need a park as much as you need a graveyard, a house and a school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bench&#8217;s observations came during the hearing of a plea by an NGO which moved the court against the removal of a night shelter inside the Amir Khusro Park near Sundar Nagar in South Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>However, the shelter was demolished as the court had not granted it any interim protection.<\/p>\n<p>The court told the Wakf Board, which is the owner of the land where the park exists, that it is a valuable area and needs to be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>It also said the DDA and the municipal corporation were ready to help the board to restore the park.<\/p>\n<p>The bench observed that there are over 900 properties of Wakf Board which have been encroached upon by private persons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How are private people coming and taking away your property? There are so many properties of the board which have been encroached upon by private persons,&#8221; it said and asked the DDA to file a status report and listed the matter for further hearing on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>The bench had earlier asked the authorities to demolish the illegal construction inside the Amir Khusro Park here and restore it to its original position.<\/p>\n<p>It had also said that law was same for everyone and it has to be complied with and no illegal construction in the city would be spared.<\/p>\n<p>It had said that old structures, which comply with the law, will be preserved while the remaining ones will go.<\/p>\n<p>The NGO in its plea has said the shelter housed 50-60 children and around 60 women who were left homeless after the demolition in pursuance to a high court order.<\/p>\n<p>The court had refused to stay the demolition and directed the authorities to ensure that all the homeless were accommodated in another shelter home located in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>It had refused to grant any relief against an anti- encroachment drive by the DDCA in parks of Delhi, observing that squatters cannot be allowed to stay inside.<\/p>\n<p>The high court had last month issued directions to the authorities to remove encroachments inside and around the 12.8-acre historic park.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court today asked the authorities to explore the possibility of shifting all graveyards in the national capital to a &#8220;proper place&#8221;. 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