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Pictures: Kerala blows up luxury high-rises over environmental violations

The apex court had held all the four were built in violation of Coastal Zone norms

Published: January 13, 2020 13:47 Compiled by Balaram Menon

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Copy of 20200112069L-1578911145151 — A view of Jain Coral Cove apartment being demolished through a controlled implosion, in Kochi. Sending a strong message to violators of environmental norms, the Supreme Court ordered demolition drive against four illegal waterfront apartment complexes here was completed on Sunday with the last two high rises pulled down using controlled implosion method. Image Credit: ANI

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Copy of 20200112286L-1578911141380 — Jain Coral cove apartment being demolished through a controlled implosion, in Maradu, Kochi. In perhaps the first of its kind drive in the country against illegal residential high rises, the four concrete colossuses housing nearly 350 flats were reduced to piles of rubble in seconds one after another over the last two days. Image Credit: ANI

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Copy of PTI1_11_2020_000025B-1578911120279 — A view of Holy Faith H20, a water-front complex, being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. Explosives, weighing nearly 750 kg, were used in a controlled manner to bring down the lakeside structures in Maradu, eight months after the apex court ordered their demolition for violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone norms. Image Credit: PTI

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Copy of PTI1_12_2020_000027B-1578911154426 — A view of Jain Coral Cove apartment being demolished using controlled implosion, in Kochi. The Kerala government stuck to its time line of 138 days given to the Supreme Court in September last year as the meticulously planned operation was successfully carried out in a precise manner amid tight security and after people in the neighbourhood were evacuated as a precautionary measure. Image Credit: PTI

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Copy of India_Apartment_Demolition_05278.jpg-e468b~1-1578911129955 — The second tower of water-front residential apartment Alpha Serene is blasted using controlled implosion in Kochi. The government, which made it clear that it will implement the court orders, had managed to evict the owners of the flat, who staged protests, saying they had invested their hard earned money in buying the flats. The Supreme Court had ordered payment of Rs 25 lakh as interim compensation. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 20200112067L-1578911151352 — A view of Jain Coral Cove apartment being demolished through a controlled implosion, in Kochi. The towering buildings that took several months to build and had housed 100s of families collapsed inwards into a pile of rubble like a house of cards in seconds, triggering mammoth clouds of dust. Just in a few seconds, the towering buildings, whose interior walls had been removed in pre-demolition work over the past weeks leaving them concrete shells, became mounds of debris. Image Credit: ANI

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Copy of PTI1_11_2020_000030B-1578911133029 — A view of the twin towers of Alfa Serene apartment being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. While Mumbai-based Edifices Engineering carried out the explosion with the assistance of experts from South Africa- based Jet Demolition, the twin towers of Alfa Serene were demolished by Chennai-based Vijay Steels. Image Credit: PTI

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Copy of 240649-01-08-1578911166020 — A view of Holy Faith H20, a water-front complex, being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of India_Apartment_Demolition_33657.jpg-f92f1~1-1578911114964 — Alpha Serene, a water-front residential apartment, is razed to the ground by controlled implosion in Kochi. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of India_Apartment_Demolition_90953.jpg-146be~1-1578911123444 — Water-front residential apartments Alpha Serene, left and center, and Holy Faith H2O, right, stand before they were razed to the ground by controlled implosion in Kochi Image Credit: AP

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Copy of India_Apartment_Demolition_46977.jpg-69d2c~1-1578911127621 — High-rise luxury apartment Holy Faith H2O, is brought to ground by controlled implosion in Kochi. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of PTI1_11_2020_000035B-1578911138978 — A view of the twin towers of Alfa Serene apartment being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. Image Credit: PTI

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Copy of PTI1_11_2020_000029B-1578911161029 — People gather to watch the the twin towers of Alfa Serene apartment being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. Image Credit: PTI

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Golden Kayalorum apartment — Golden Kayalorum apartment being demolished through a controlled implosion, in Maradu, Kochi. Image Credit: ANI

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Copy of PTI1_11_2020_000028B-1578911135936 — A view of Holy Faith H20, a water-front complex, being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. Image Credit: PTI

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Copy of 2020-01-11T082956Z_1855182304_RC2KDE984Y4V_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-ENVIRONMENT-1578911163489 — A view of Holy Faith H20, a water-front complex, being demolished using controlled implosion at Maradu in Kochi. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 240718-01-08-1578911157607 — Residents gather to witness the implosion of apartment complexes following the Supreme Court decision to demolish them for violating coastal construction regulations in Kochi. Image Credit: AFP

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A view of Jain Coral Cove — A view of Jain Coral Cove apartment being demolished through a controlled implosion, in Kochi. Image Credit: ANI

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Copy of 20200112284L-1578911149005 — Golden Kayalorum apartment being demolished through a controlled implosion, in Maradu, Kochi. Image Credit: ANI

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Copy of 20200111309L-1578911117142 — H2O Holy Faith apartment tower being demolished through controlled implosion in Maradu, Kochi. Image Credit: ANI

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