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Eviction, Erasure, Exclusion: What Is The Land Dispute In Haldwani About?

On December 20, 2022, Uttarakhand High Court ordered the eviction of about 50,000 people in the Muslim-dominated Banbhoolpura neighbourhood in Haldwani after the railways claimed people were illegally encroaching on 78 acres of railway land.

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Eviction, Erasure, Exclusion: What is the land dispute in Haldwani about?
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What is the land dispute in Haldwani about? And how would eviction impact the lives of those affected by the court-ordered eviction?

Outlook visited Haldwani in the wake of the Supreme Court stay on the eviction and found a neighbourhood wrapped in uncertainty about the future.