LUCKNOW: The UP government on Friday empowered itself to recover the cost of property damaged during protests, riots and rallies from the accused by promulgating the ‘UP Recovery of Public and Private Property Ordinance’.
The ordinance was cleared by the Yogi Adityanath cabinet even as a three-judge Supreme Court bench is slated to hear the state’s special leave petition next week challenging the Allahabad high court order which asked the government to remove hoardings carrying names, pictures and addresses of 57 protesters accused of damaging properties during anti-CAA violence in Lucknow on December 19.
After large-scale violence in December during the protests in which property w
