Thread : January 19 2020: Homes of residents in Kariyammana Agrahara, a migrant settlement in Bengaluru were demolished by an excavator over suspicions that some of the residents were illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

When excavators reached the settlement for the demolition, residents held up their identity cards to prove their Indian citizenship. “But even though we were trying to tell them that we were Indian, our houses were demolished,” Munni Begum, a 21-year-old resident recalled.

The Karnataka High Court later found that the demolition drive was unauthorised. Residents in the settlement held Indian identity cards and came from states like Assam, West Bengal, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and even from north Karnataka.

This week, eleven months after the incident, the Karnataka High Court directed the state government to pay compensation for the families affected in the demolition

Residents are likely to receive a total of Rs 43,100 as compensation. Some have reported that they have received Rs 14,100, a part of the compensation, already.

In the migrant settlement, news of the High Court directive for compensation was met with relief and joy. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/11-months-after-homes-destroyed-govt-migrant-families-bengaluru-get-compensation-138191