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IN RE: DIRECTIONS IN THE MATTER OF DEMOLITION OF STRUCTURES versus

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Reported as [2024] 11 S.C.R. 722
Bench B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan JJ.
Decided 13 November 2024

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Issue for Consideration Whether the executive should be permitted to take away the shelter of a family or families as a measure for infliction of penalty on a person who is accused in a crime. In other words, whether properties of persons, who are accused of committing certain crimes or for that matter even convicted for commission of criminal offences, can be demolished without following the due process of law. Headnotes† Demolition of property – Demolition of property of a person by the State machinery merely because he is an accused or a convict, that too without following due process

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