Authorities in a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi have demolished two residential high-rise buildings after a nine-year-long legal battle, in a dramatic spectacle carried live on television channels after days of exciting media build-up.
The destruction of the 100-metre-high “Twin Towers” in Noida, taller than New Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar, home to a concrete forest of similar structures, was also a rare example of India getting tough on corrupt developers and officials.
