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Ambedkar Maidan gates demolished 16 Dec 2007, 0310 hrs IST,Pankaj Shah,TNN LUCKNOW: In clear violation of high court's order restraining the state government from bulldozing government properties, Mayawati government pulled down entrance gates of Ambedkar maidan, now rechristened as Kanshi Ram Smarak, at Jail road late on Saturday night. On November 6, a division bench, comprising Justice AN Verma and Justice SN Shukla, while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by one Mithilesh Kumar Singh, had ordered the state government to maintain status quo on government properties in the state capital. It was clarified in the order that the government could carry out maintenance work in state properties. Notwithstanding the high court order, as many as half-a-dozen bulldozers were pressed into service by the state government to pull down three gates constructed at the park. The ground was, in fact, covered with tin sheets from all sides to keep the demolition work away from the public glare. That the demolition was carried out late in the evening only corroborated the fact. The gate on the jail road was pulled down with the help of two bulldozers. The area reverberated as the JCB machines trundled their way to hit the gates with iron buckets. The fall of huge red sand stones only added to the noise. It was at that time that a group of contractors stopped the TOI team from covering the event
