{"id":14485,"date":"2016-08-03T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=14482&amp;preview_id=14482"},"modified":"2016-08-03T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:55:22","slug":"demolish-illegal-religious-structures-near-birla-temple-within-two-weeks-ngt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=14485","title":{"rendered":"Demolish illegal religious structures near Birla temple within two weeks: NGT &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Centre and Delhi government to demolish illegal religious structures in the Central Ridge area near the Birla temple here within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi directed the Ministry of Urban Development and Delhi government to knock down two religious structures and a platform, identified as encroachment on the 7.5 acres of the ridge area. &#8220;We direct that the respondent no 2 and 3 in collaboration with each other shall carry out the demolition of the said identified structures within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We further direct the Commissoner of Police to grant every police assistance to them for demolition,&#8221; the bench, also comprising Expert Member Ranjan Chatterjee, said. It warned that if any &#8220;laxity&#8221; is shown in executing this order, it will hold officers concerned personally liable and will resort to coercive measures against them.<\/p>\n<p>The direction came after the Ministry of Urban Development submitted that demarcation of the area where illegal structures are to be demolished has been completed and two religious structures and a platform have been identified as encroachments and sought police protection for demolition.<\/p>\n<p>The order came on the contempt petition filed by K C Bhargava, who resides near the temple located on Mandir Marg here, stating the constructions by a trust are in violation of a Supreme Court order prohibiting non-forest activity in the 7.5 acres of land adjacent to the shrine. Bhargava had alleged that the trust &#8220;in connivance with NDMC and other authorities has illegally constructed a road, parking, temple and other constructions within the said Central Ridge area&#8221;, a charge denied by the temple authorities. PTI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Centre and Delhi government to demolish illegal religious structures in the Central Ridge area near the Birla temple here within two weeks. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi directed the Ministry of Urban Development and Delhi government to knock down two religious structures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}