This is our home, where will we go, ask Pak. Hindu families staying in north Delhi camp
The Hindu
Migrants fear displacement as Centre tells High Court they are encroaching upon defence land
As many as 200 Pakistani Hindu migrant families living in north Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar at the Delhi Jal Board Maidan are a worried lot. Living without basic amenities for over eight years, they are now facing a threat of displacement as the Centre, in an affidavit, has told the Delhi High Court that they are encroaching upon defence land.
The migrants, all of whom moved here from Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh province after the camp was set up in 2013, lament that they have been denied Indian citizenship despite more than a year and a half of the Citizenship Amendment Act being passed by Parliament. Now, with the shelter that had helped them seek refuge under threat, they fear they will have nowhere to go unless the authorities assist them.
“I didn’t know about the High Court order but if we are shifted out, I hope the authorities make an alternative arrangement for us. We haven’t been able to get our Indian citizenship; if we had, we would have been able to buy a flat somewhere and live independently,” said Ramji, who migrated four years ago along with his family of nine.