New Delhi: Asserting that no illegal constructions could be regularised if it was affecting the Capital's eco-system, the Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered forthwith removal of all unauthorised structures, including four places of worship, from the embankments of river Yamuna.
A Division Bench of acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Kailash Gambhir also issued contempt notice to the SHO in charge of the ITO Bridge and sought the personal presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), for their failure to help the authorities in removing the illegal structures.
The Bench clarified that the recently passed Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006, to regularise all unauthorised structures constructed prior to January 2006 shall not apply to the structures constructed on the river-bed.
The court order to remove the two temples and two mosques from the river-bed assumes significance in the wake of a similar order passed by the Gujarat High Court which precipitated communal riots in the state.
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