Under the shelter and umbrella of the District Administration and subordinate officers, being a Social Welfare State as embodied by the Constitution of India and any authorities in exercise of their authoritative rights in the course of implementing the power, the District Administration ought to look into the welfare of the citizen, individual rights and liberty enshrined by the Constitution of India. However, irrespective of the prerogative right of the administrative power, the basic rights of the citizen was not safeguarded to a slightest degree of reasonableness which was to have maintained or shown to the affected families/plaintiff/petitioners by the administrative authority in context of the eviction drive carried out behind the East Police station the so called Fire Brigade colony, Dimapur on 21st May 2013 by the District Administration and Fire Department.
But without ascertaining who is right and who is wrong, by employing the excerpt “ Might is right” when the subject matter was pending before the court of law, the forceful eviction was carried out against six (6) families in this midsummer rendering homeless to 33 family members including minor and school going children who are all bonafide citizen of the State and fellow Nagas, has now become homeless and is now facing untold hardship, misery, frustration, mental and physical agony and also deep inconvenience due to the handy work of the District Administration and Fire Department whose status have now become worse than a street beggar, affecting the educational career and have nowhere to cook and sleep who have been accorded and comforted by the good Samaritans in the scorching summer.
Nevertheless, the dignity and the integrity of the court, (the temple of justice) have been impeded and disregarded even affecting the legal fraternity. Anyhow, it is not wise to comment in this context.
However, as the counsel (Advocates), on behalf of the affected family, the undersigned would like to bring to the knowledge of the State Government or any such competent authority in providing assistance in all meaningful ways and means as deemed fit for their basic needs by employing the meaning of the Welfare State. Although, the incident and destruction was not a result of Natural Disaster but the incident was the outcome of unreasonableness and uneventful destruction.
The undersigned by sharing the woes and sorrows fervently request, the Social Welfare Department, Govt of Nagaland, the authority of the Disaster Management and the State Human Rights Commission to look into the affected families so as to give timely solace and appropriate reliefs.
KUKNALIM
Bendangwabang
Yalemsen
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