WATCH | Demolition Looms Over Batla House's Neighbourhood After DDA Eviction Notice - video Dailymotion

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Mohammad Usman, now 65, moved into Batla House’s Kharsa No. 279 when he was a child. The house - where he has grown old - is not at a risk of being demolished after the neighbourhood received an eviction notice from Delhi’s Development Authority on May 26.  As per Supreme Court’s order, the locality falls outside the purview of the PM-UDAY scheme, and therefore is considered to be illegal. However, residents claim that they possess the legal property documents. They are given 15 days to vacate their homes.  “The demolition program shall be carried out from 11-06-2025 (Wednesday) without any further notice,” the eviction notice stated.  The Supreme Court on May 29 agreed to hear an application filed by 40 people against the demolition notices next week.   Residents of this Muslim-dominated neighborhood are in panic, confused by the sudden and, according to them, first-time notice served without prior warning. “My parents bought this house with every penny they had. Where are we supposed to go?” Usman asked.  Reporter: Ainnie Arif Camera: Tribhuvan Tiwari Editor: Madiha Shakeel  #Okhla #BatlaHouse #PMUDAY #Demolition #Eviction #NewDelhi

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00:00If you bring the children, it will not be possible.

00:02We will be able to know ourselves.

00:04We will be able to meet the children of our children.

00:26The government will not listen.

00:28Our children will not listen.

00:30We will do our lives.

00:38The time is coming back in the 11th century.

00:40You will find the 11th century.

00:41Let's end it, we will go to the 11th century.

00:43Before we go to the 11th century,

00:45we will leave you.

00:46If you have a notice,

00:48the first notice is you don't want to know yourself.

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01:19We have a train guard, a boarding guard, and we put a board on it.

01:23We don't have to do anything. We have to come and say,

01:26we're going to go. That's our food. That's our food.

01:28We're very sick. We don't have to worry about it.

01:32We don't have to worry about it. We don't have to worry about it.

01:34Where are we going?

WATCH | Demolition Looms Over Batla House's Neighbourhood After DDA Eviction Notice

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