Turkman gate demolition and massare

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Turkman gate demolition and firing was infamous case of political oppression and police brutality during The Emergency (India) when the people protesting against demolitions of their houses ordered by Indira Gandhi government in 1976 were fired at and killed by the police.

In emergency Indira Gandhi government prompted by Sanjay Gandhi- Indira Gandhi's son launched the demolition drive to cleanse Delhi city of slums and force their poor residents to leave Delhi and move to distant settlements. The residents of Turkman Gate mostly Muslims refused to move as they would have to commute every day paying heavy bus fares to reach the city to earn their living. They resisted the bulldozing of their houses. On April 18, 1976, the police opened fire on protesters killing several of them. The government who had earlier imposed censorship ordered the newspapers not to report the massacre. Indian public came to know about killings through foreign media like BBC.