Khori Village In Haryana: Police, Villagers Clash As Demolition Looms for Hundreds of Houses

Anger over the demolition of their houses escalated over in Haryana’s Khori village as residents and police personnel clashed on June 30. The clash broke after people were stopped from holding a mahapanchayat in the village’s Ambedkar Park. This comes even as Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar announced that families whose members are voters in Haryana will be relocated to vacant flats in the district. Tension has been rife in the Khori village since the Supreme Court, on June 7, directed the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) to “take all essential measures to remove encroachments on the subject forest land without any exception.” The apex court gave the civic body six weeks to complete the task. The next hearing in the matter is scheduled for July 27. Thousands of residents of the village, many of whom have lived there for almost 20 years, say this will render them homeless, reported The Indian Express.

A survey has been done which found that 3,400 people in the village are voters in Haryana; these are around 1,400 families. "Arrangements will be made so they can get loans easily from the banks,” said CM Manohar Lal Khattar. Watch the video to know more.