KOCHI: Justice KR Udayabhanu has lashed out against the state government over its decision to evict the residents from the controversial flats in Maradu. In a Facebook post, he added that the disconnection of electricity and water is a violation of human rights.

His Facebook post read, 'Disconnecting water & electricity in the darkness is a human rights violation and smoking out families like rats is too indecent for a government to perform. Even at the risk of sending the Chief Secretary to jail, the government ought to have resisted or sought time to make alternative arrangements. The builders ought to have been pressurised to provide alternative abodes. I feel that such strong actions on the part of government would have saved the Maradu victims, and SC would have relented.'

Meanwhile, the government has begun the eviction procedures in the flats. Both KSEB and KWA had disconnected power and water supply to the flats earlier today.