As per the plan to widen the 25-meter road in Hetauda Bazaar, houses and huts in the market area were demolished on November 20. Locals had approached the Supreme Court against the project.
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The case related to the road expansion in the Hetauda market area has been scheduled for hearing in the full court on February 20.
A joint bench of Supreme Court Justices Sapana Malla and Abdul Aziz Musalman has ordered the case to be presented to the full bench for hearing. The Supreme Court has fixed the case for presentation on Falgun 10.
As the file file requested earlier was not received, an order was issued to produce the file file of the decision related to the road expansion and fixed the case for presentation on Magh 18. On Magh 18, a joint bench of Justices Malla and Musalman had ordered the case to be presented to the full bench for hearing. The date of the case was given only on Sunday.
Locals including Bindavasini Kansakar had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court demanding protection of their houses and property in the wake of the road expansion. In a case registered against the Division Road Office, Hetauda, Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City, and the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, a single bench of Judge Meghraj Pokharel had issued a 'show cause order' in the name of the defendants on November 19.
The Supreme Court had also issued a 'short-term interim order' not to proceed with the road expansion work immediately. Despite repeated submissions to discuss the continuation of the same order and the interim order, it was listed as 'not allowed to be seen' and 'not allowed to be seen' for the sixth time.
As per the plan to widen the 25-meter road of Hetauda Bazaar, houses and huts in the market area were demolished on November 20. Locals including Kansakar had approached the Supreme Court against the said work. The writ petitioners in the case have been arguing that personal property should not be damaged without proper compensation and legal process.
The main market of Hetauda is currently in chaos after the Division Road Office demolished more than 500 houses within the 9.5-kilometer road boundary from Ratomate via Buddha Chowk to Rapti Bridge (Mahendra Highway) and from Buddha Chowk to Chowkitol (Tribhuvan Highway) on November 20, in the course of the 25-25 meter road expansion in the main market area of Hetauda.
Guru Prasad Adhikari, the head of the Road Division Office, Hetauda, said that the office was forced to 'stay with its hands tied' until the Supreme Court orders.
The Road Division Hetauda started the road expansion work by removing the houses and structures built in the main market area of Hetauda for the construction of the Asian Highway on November 20, and the Road Department is currently waiting for the court order.
There are 234 houses and structures on the right side of the road and 297 on the left side within 25/25 yards of the center of the road that need to be demolished. Of these, about 500 structures have already been demolished.
