India Tomorrow
LUCKNOW, MARCH 14 – The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Friday approved “UP Recovery of damage to public properties Ordinance-2020” for recovery of losses due to damage to government and private properties during political processions. The decision in this regard was taken by a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday evening.
“The cabinet has approved UP Recovery of damage to public properties Ordinance-2020 for recovery of losses of government and private properties during political processions, illegal agitations,” UP Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna told reporters after the cabinet meeting. The ordinance empowers to recover the cost of property damaged during protests, riots and rallies from the accused.
The ordinance was cleared by the Yogi Adityanath cabinet even as a three-judge Supreme Court bench is slated to hear the state’s special leave petition next week challenging the Allahabad high court order which asked the government to remove hoardings carrying names, pictures and addresses of 57 protesters accused of damaging properties during anti-CAA violence in Lucknow on December 19.
After large-scale violence in December during the protests in which property worth crores was damaged, the government had served recovery notices on the accused, citing a 2009 order of the Supreme Court.
