Thousands of residents in the Indian capital attacked police and municipal officials on Wednesday as they arrived in their district to demolish illegal constructions on public land, a news report said Thursday.
Authorities called out paramilitaries and sharpshooters as angry residents pelted police with stones, blocked roads and vandalized public transport in a west Delhi colony. The anti- encroachment drive carried out by the residents on Wednesday took a violent turn, the Hindustan Times reported.
The Delhi government had started its anti-encroachment drive on August 29 following a High Court directive, which ordered municipal authorities in city to bring down illegal constructions and seal off shops operating in residential colonies.
"Where were these agencies when we were building our houses?
We have been living here for decades, and they want to dislocate us..," the report quoted a resident, Gurmeet, as saying.
Source: Xinhua
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