Evicted slum dwellers demand rehabilitation
Staff Correspondent
Evicted slum dwellers, at a press conference in the city yesterday, demanded their immediate rehabilitation."After the eviction, we are now living under the open sky with a miserable condition," they said. The slum dwellers also demanded punishment of the local ward commissioner who allegedly evicted them after demolishing their makeshift houses by force on March 3. They said the ward commissioner wanted to grab the slum land at Johuri Moholla in Moham-madpur. As part of the programme, a group of miscreants set fire to the slum leaving two minor girls burnt alive in 1995. The criminals again looted the slum last year. A case was filed with Moham-madpur police but no action was taken against the criminals, they alleged. Organised by Basti Oikya Forum, the press conference was attended by the members of about 40 to 50 evicted families.
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