A photo of people living by a railway track is circulating in posts linking it to a court decision to block the demolition of homes on disputed land in northern India The picture is unrelated to the dispute and was taken in 2013 in eastern India
The post attracted more than 17,000 likes.on January 5 to block a lower court's order to demolish more than 4,000 houses built on land said to be owned by local railway authorities in Haldwani, pending a further hearing in February.
Railway authorities insisted that past revenue records and surveys showed that the sites belonged to them, but activistssome residents had lived on the lands for decades and that the order would impact some 50,000 people. The lower court's original order was handed down on December 20 after the residents were given one week's notice to leave.
The Supreme Court said in its ruling that there could not be"uprooting of 50,000 people in seven days".
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