# Delhi High Court orders slum dwellers near PM house to vacate in 6 weeks 2026-08-26T03:33:53+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets The Delhi High Court has given residents of three slum clusters near the Prime Minister's official residence in the Lok Kalyan Marg area six weeks to vacate. The bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia directed the families at Bhai Ram Camp, Masjid Camp and DID Colony to move to accommodation at a Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board colony in Savda Ghevra, outer Delhi. The court said the government can evict residents after the six-week period with police assistance if needed. It constituted a monitoring committee under retired judge Man Mohan Sharma to supervise the rehabilitation and ensure amenities such as schools, electricity and healthcare are provided. The Centre had sought eviction citing the location next to an operational Air Force station. The order came on appeals against a single judge's May 11 ruling that gave residents 15 days to vacate and upheld the eviction. The division bench said the rehabilitation policy had not been violated. Around 717 families are affected, according to one source, though another put the figure at more than 350 people. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both India Today and Livemint report the same court order as straight news, giving a date, a deadline, and the monitoring committee. The key factual divergence is that India Today states the slums house 717 dwellers while Livemint puts the figure at "more than 350 people". India Today quotes the court's Article 21 dignity language at length, while Livemint foregrounds the residents' own argument about disrupted livelihoods. Livemint also names the camps and singles out the national security justification. A composite view yields a clearance timeline of six weeks expiring around 6 October 2026, when the monitoring committee's supervision becomes the central operational question. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - indiatoday.in (neutral report) Straight news report given with court arguments and resident concerns, no slant detected - livemint.com (neutral report) Factual account of court order with emphasis on resident livelihood concerns This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-26T06:17:11+00:00. Tags: Delhi High Court, DK Upadhyaya, DUSIB, Lok Kalyan Marg, Savda Ghevra Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/delhi-hc-gives-slum-dwellers-six-weeks-to-vacate-near-pm-house/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/delhi-hc-gives-slum-dwellers-six-weeks-to-vacate-near-pm-house/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/