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Demolition Timeline
It starts after Delhi HC acts on applications filed by RWAs seeking help against unauthorised construction in their colonies.
Demolition Timeline
How It All Started
Various Residents Welfare Associations had approached Delhi High Court, alleging large-scale unauthorised construction in their colonies they said were a drain on existing civic resources.
HC clubbed all petitions and asked MCD to provide a list of all illegal properties booked for unauthorised construction since 2001 and ordered it to demolish all illegal structures.
Highlights of Demolition Drive
December 17, 2005: Drive starts with reports of violence from Kohat Enclave.
February 14: Tejendra Khanna committee constituted for mixed land-use and permissible unauthorised construction subject to payment of penalty.
May 19: RWAs move SC, challenging the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill passed by Parliament.
August 1: Supreme Court is furious, asks why the Act should not be declared null and void.
September 20: The UD Ministry issues notification on amended building bylaws in an attempt to regularise existing unauthorised constructions and also liberalises norms for future constructions.
