On March 21, 2025, a viral video showed a child clutching her books and fleeing as her home was razed. The visuals resurfaced as the Supreme Court pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government and the Prayagraj administration for their 2021 demolitions, which took place without due process. Watch what happened.
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00:00This viral video of a little girl clutching her books and running as a bulldozer raced
00:17her home on 21st March 2025 has now caught the Supreme Court's attention.
00:22The visuals from Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh showed a demolition drive in Jalalpur where
00:26shanties were being torn down.
00:28The girl, desperate to save her books, ran from the scene as her home was reduced to
00:32rubble.
00:40The video came up as the bench pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government and the Prayagraj
00:45administration for the 2021 demolition where homes were torn down without proper due process.
00:50It has now ordered a Rs 10 lakh compensation for homeowners who approached the court.
00:55Referring to the girl's video, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said,
00:58Everyone is very disturbed by such visuals.
01:01The bench flamed the Uttar Pradesh government for razing the homes of a lawyer, a professor
01:05and some other without following due procedure.
01:07Advocate Zulfiqar Haider, Professor Ali Ahmed and three others had told the court that they
01:12were given notices just one night before the bulldozer action.
01:16The lawyer representing the petitioners had told the court that the authorities mistakenly
01:20identified the land on which their homes were built as belonging to gangster Atik Ahmed
01:25who was murdered in 2023.
01:27The viral video that caught the court's attention was widely shared with opposition leaders
01:31criticising the Yogi Adityanath government for its bulldozer actions.
01:35Meanwhile, the Yogi government used bulldozers to demolish alleged illegal and unauthorised
01:39properties of those accused of crimes, earning Yogi Adityanath the moniker Bulldozer Baba.