HOSHIARPUR NEWS: 100 Illegal Hutments Pulled Down
HOSHIARPUR: Dozers pulled down over a hundred hutments on Improvement Trust land in scheme no. 2 on Friday, with police help. Tribals had squat ted on the Trust land over two decades back. Even as there was none of the opposition the Trust officials had anticipated, the squatters said they were not served eviction notices. The Trust said it was not obliged to serve notice under the circumstances. A few concrete homes and a temple were also demolished. Trust EO Surinder Kumari and SHO, Model Town, Gurjitpal Singh led the demolition drive. Kumari said the Trust plans to build multi-storey flats on the land.
SOURCE-HT