The Times of India has denounced the policy of punishing people by bulldozing their homes, saying "dozer justice" is a challenge to constitutional rights.
In its editorial, the Indian newspaper was surprised by the reluctance of the Supreme Courts in India in dealing with this issue.
Those courts, she said, appear dazed, "a case of systematic passivity when confronted with the unconstitutional use of force by Indian state governments".
With more house demolitions in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Tripura and civil Delhi, violations of basic human rights have become widespread, "but the wheels of justice move much slower than the tracks of bulldozers," the newspaper said.
The newspaper reported that the Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notices last April following the demolitions that were carried out following the riots in Khargon, but this has not been followed up by anything so far.
The Supreme Court also decided, according to the newspaper, that its next hearing regarding the demolitions that took place in the Jahangirpuri district of Delhi will be next August.
This prompted the newspaper to stress that the courts are required to show much greater urgency in this matter.
Rather, the higher courts and special courts, according to the newspaper, should intervene on their own in such a case because the primary task of these courts, which is to determine and punish the offense, is now at stake.
She saw the petition submitted to the Supreme Court in "Allahabad" last Monday against the demolition of Prayagraj's house as an opportunity to correct this approach.
She explained that the petition in this case indicated that the house was owned by the wife of an accused of organizing "violent demonstrations", which highlights one of the worst aspects of bulldozers' work. Not only is the crime determined outside the courts, but the punishment is imposed on the accused's family as well.
The newspaper adds in its editorial that the concept of collective punishment was common in the Middle Ages, and was even ordained in law at the time.
But she makes clear that it goes without saying that such a method has no place in constitutional democracies, and yet, over the past two years, and especially over the past few weeks, the bulldozers dispatched by state officials are raising a serious question for the rule of law, according to the newspaper.
The Times of India stresses that the responsibility to erect a judicial barrier to the bulldozer's "justice" rests with the higher courts, stating that no administrative body or municipality is likely to challenge the judges.
The newspaper concludes by saying that when the courts intervene forcefully, even the rebellious regimes correct themselves, noting that the justice system is still, despite all its limits, a protector of citizens' rights, and it cannot - according to its opinion - remain "astonished" in the face of such violations, it does not move.