PRAYAGRAJ: Pursuant to the order passed by the court, the state authorities on Friday produced a compliance report before Allahabad high court, stating therein the removal of the structures and encroachments, which were carried out after 1975 in Chandrashekar Azad Park at Prayagraj.
However, the petitioner Jitendra Singh Vishen, who appeared in person before the court, submitted that all the structures/encroachments have not yet been removed. The submission of the petitioner was seriously contested by the official respondents.
In view of the above, a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice Piyush Agrawal directed the official respondents to file an affidavit to the effect that compliance to the judgment of the apex court in the case of Allahabad Ladies Club Versus Jitendra Nath Singh and others, (2007) 11 SCC 609 has been made and all the improvements/constructions/encroachments have been removed from the park.
The court further directed that the aforesaid affidavit would be filed within a week with a copy to the counsel for the petitioners. The court fixed October 21 as the next date of hearing of this matter. The court also directed that the copy of the compliance report would be supplied to the counsel for the petitioners during the course of the day.
Earlier, on October 5, 2021, this court had directed the Uttar Pradesh government to remove, within three days, all the encroachments including graves, mazars or mosque constructed or created within the area of the Chandrashekhar Azad Park in Prayagraj, which was earlier known as Alfred Park.
Besides, the court, while referring to an apex court ruling in the case of Allahabad Ladies Club Versus Jitendra Nath Singh and others (2007) 11 SCC 609, had directed the authorities that all illegal encroachments in the park that came up after 1975 should be demolished.
