Property demolition

1976

In power

INC — Centre

Acted

Centre

Houses, shops and other structures in Delhi were demolished in slum clearance drives by the Delhi Development Authority and the Municipal Corporation. In a Delhi television interview on 31 December 1976, quoted by the Shah Commission, Jagmohan said seven lakh (700,000) people had been resettled in eight months. The Commission found that Jagmohan became a law unto himself and did the biddings of Sanjay Gandhi, and that Sanjay Gandhi was the prime mover in most of the illegal demolitions in Delhi. [1]

• seven lakh (700,000) people resettled in Delhi in eight months, said Jagmohan, DDA (TV interview, 31 December 1976) [1]

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