Polrah residents refuse to vacate land despite HC order
Haryana- Despite the High Court order, hundreds of residents from the Polrah village refused to vacate the land. Polrah is a small village located in Kaithal district of Haryana and has been siting over a Mauryan-era historical site for more than a decade.
The residents were asked to vacate the land in defiance of Punjab and Haryana high court orders as it was an encroached archaeological site. The deadline for vacating the land has been given as March 18 with the order being issued on February 15.
The residents however will fight the local administration if they are compelled to evict the 47 acres populated land. As per various archaeologists, the land dates back from the Mauryan (187 BC to 320 AD) and Gupta (320 to 480 AD) periods.
According to the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, the area was declared as a protective site in 1932. The Act however still prevails. Although there were no significant monuments being recovered, the site was excavated before Partition and it was known that the place was inhabited by Mauryans.
The long Indo-Pak Partition led to the arrival of a bunch of people from across the border who then settled on the ground by reconstructing their abode in Polrah village in the district. The residents however had no idea about the contents underneath their units. They were aware about it only after sixty years that they were residing atop a 2,000 year old historical protected site.
The Polrah residents have formed an association to encounter and face any move from the district administration and also claimed that the land belonged to them followed by the state government providing with facilities like water supply, electricity, school and so on. The residents are questioning the authorities about their vacating the land as they have constructed pucca houses on the land and that they have no other land to rehabilitate.
They state that it will be an injustice to them if they are evicted from the land.
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