Court should take cognisance of assault on shanty-dwellers in Ghaziabad: Akhilesh

PTI, Aug 11, 2024, 1:25 PM IST

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has urged the court to take cognisance of the assault on a group of people in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad by members of a Hindu right-wing outfit, and asked if this was a new way to “vacate” land.

Members of the outfit assaulted the group of people living near a railway station in Ghaziabad and destroyed their shanties, claiming they were Bangladeshi infiltrators. Bhupendra Chowdhary, the president of the Hindu Raksha Dal, and Badal alias Hariom Singh were arrested in connection with the case late Saturday.

In a post on X on Saturday night, Yadav said, “Even the government does not have the right to take the law into its own hands, then how can its associates and henchmen have the right to do so. The honourable court is requested to take suo motu cognisance of this violent matter.”