A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India has directed the Railways and the Delhi Government not to demolish the JJ clusters till the next hearing by maintaining status quo, the Delhi Congress said.
The petition argued by senior lawyers Salman Khurshid and Abhishek Manu Sanghvi for the respondents living along the Railway tracks of Delhi seeking restraint of the Supreme Court order to demolish the JJ clusters on Railway land within three months, the party said in a statement.
It may be recalled that following the SC order to remove the JJ clusters along the Railway tracks, Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar had rushed to the JJ clusters at Sarai Rohilla and assured the jhuggi dwellers there that the Delhi Congress will spare no effort in stalling the demolition of their jhuggis.
Kumar said that it was shocking that the AAP Government in Delhi has not listed the issue of the JJ clusters in its agenda for the one-day session of the Assembly on Monday which clearly shows that the government was merely shedding crocodile tears for the residents of JJ Clusters.