Close to five high-rises surround a patch of land that was at the center of violent clashes after a “demolition drive” on May 15. This was once the village of Fatehpur Jharsa, which its inhabitants claim has a history going back more than a 100 years.
There’s no semblance of a rural settlement here today, though. The village that was once home to over 250 families is now all dust and rubble. All you can spot are a few kekar shrubs and road rollers flattening the surface of the roughly 13-acre plot to make way for a road to an apartment complex. A cattle pond is perhaps the last relic of the village that was razed to the ground after a Haryana and Punjab High Court order.
