Auto driver to juice shop owner, they’re taking on bulldozer raj

It was the longest two hours of 61-year-old Rashid Khan’s life. As an autorickshaw driver who earns Rs 1,000-1,500 a day, Rashid had borrowed and saved for years to buy a four-room house for Rs 16.5 lakh. On the morning of August 17, he found his life’s savings being torn down brick by brick by a bulldozer. By 1pm, there was nothing left but rubble.
“After seeing your savings destroyed before your very eyes, it is hard to have faith in anything,” Rashid says.