Shaheen Bagh residents protest anti-encroachment drive

Monday, 9 May 2022newsdesk

Local residents of Shaheen Bagh stood in front of a bulldozer, that arrived to carry out an anti-encroachment drive and raised slogans. Yasir Imam, a local resident, said that people had gathered against the “targeted demolitions”.

New Delhi, 09 May 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, the Delhi Police will provide security for a demolition drive that will commence in Shaheen Bagh on Monday, said DCP (south-east) Esha Pandey. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s anti-encroachment drives in the Kalindi Kunj-Jamia Nagar area near Shaheen Bagh and in Sriniwaspuri were cancelled last week till Friday due to the unavailability of an adequate police force. In other news, Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, who was in the midst of a push and pull between police from three states, said that he had no intention of physically harming Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and that the Punjab Police was going after him for minor things instead of working to bust drug cartels.

Source - The Indian Express