ABOUT THE BOOK
When in 2006, the Supreme Court directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to
demolish certain illegal properties in Delhi, no one imagined that this would
snowball into a major human and political crisis. It rattled the masses, the
businessmen, the Parliament and the Assembly. There were unprecedented
confrontations between the people, the judiciary and the government.ABOUT AUTHOR
A.K. Jain, an architect � town planner, is a member of the UN Habitat Research
Advisory Committee. He studied at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture,
Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam and University of
Birmingham. As Commissioner (Planning), he worked on the Master Plan for
Delhi-2021,