Referred to by the Court as an encroachment, the settlement contains over 10,000 homes, with over 1 lakh residents (for scale, this is little under the population of the entire city of Darjeeling in Bengal, according to the 2011 Census). This is a conservative estimate – a UN official has issued a statement where the number is pegged at 2.5 lakh.

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