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Eviction & dispossession: Keeping the poor on tenterhooks
20/01/2023 04:02 PM | Click to read full article
Words don’t come easily to Yadav as he tries to express the pain and heartbreak he felt after being uprooted from his dwelling in a shanty Gyaspur Basti near Nizamuddin area in Delhi. A hawker and a migrant, Yadav was among at least 460 individuals of low-income families who were forcefully evicted by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) between June and August 2022. The court did not intervene in the eviction despite the residents having proof of residence in the area for decades.
