Rajasthan HC stays demolition of homes of alleged accused and their families in alleged sexual exploitation case at Beawar town
Rajasthan HC stays demolition of homes of alleged accused and their families in alleged sexual exploitation case at Beawar town
Jaipur, March 6
As single judge bench of Rajasthan High Court Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal has stayed the demolition notices given to the alleged accused and their families in an alleged sexual exploitation case in Beawer town of Bijainnagar district by the local municipal authorities.
Hearing writ petitions filed by the affected Muslim families facing demolition of their hearths and homes, Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal stayed the demolition of subject property and ordered maintenance of status quo. The next of date of hearing has been fixed for March 11, 2025
Appearing for the petitioners, senior counsel Syed Saadat Ali along with Nadeem Qadeer, Aafreen Rizvi and Uzma Illyas submitted before the court that on the receipt of the show cause notices dated February 20, 2025 under section 194 and section 245 of the Rajsthan Municipalities Act,2099 seeking to demolish their construction, they had filed their responses well in time, but the respondents are hellbent to demolish their construction without taking a decision on their response.
The court directed the the counsel of the petitioners to supply copy of the writ petitions in the office of the Mr. G.S. Gill, Additional Advocate General.
The case has sparked communal tension in the region and following alleged blackmail and sexual exploitation of minor girls by some Muslim youths at Beawar town of Bijainagar district. The ruling BjP and Hindutva organisations had given bandh calls and protest marches in several towns in the region during the last two weeks. The police have so far arrested 10 persons and detained three minors.
The families of the accused are facing punitive action, as the Bijainagar Municipality has issued notices to them, asking them to produce documents to prove ownership of their houses. Notices were also issued to the local graveyard and Jama Masjid, and a gate of the graveyard was sealed.
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has condemned the attempts being made to give a communal twist to the case and demanded action against those involved in the assault inside the court building at Ajmer. PUCL-Rajasthan president Bhanwar Meghwanshi said the lawyers had taken law in their hands, but no case of obstruction in the public servants’ work was registered against them.
Civil Rights groups in Rajasthan on Tuesday (March 5, 2025) expressed concern over the repeated incidents of assault of the accused persons in an alleged blackmail case at the district court in Ajmer. A former Municipal Councillor from Bijainagar was thrashed by the lawyers and onlookers on the court premises after the remand proceedings in the third such incident on Monday.
