Amit’s nine children were asleep late last month when their home was suddenly raided by officials who brought four bulldozers with them. They were among almost 125 families whose homes were destroyed in South Delhi’s Subhash camp, 10 miles from the summit’s main venue.
“They didn’t even let us grab our belongings and started beating us before we could even finish,” the 34-year-old ragman who collects trash and sells it to a recycler said in an interview Wednesday.
Oh, well as long as they were illegal homes this is okay then!
Many had spent their entire lives in the area.
“I was born here, I grew up here, I got married here and had a kid here,” said Gujjar, 21, who like Amit and many other slum residents goes by one name.
In the US this would be a slam dunk case for adverse possession.