Shaheen Bagh anti-encroachment drive halted, SC to hear pleas against razings at 2 pm

May 9, 2022

The anti-encroachment drive at Shaheen Bagh was halted on Monday, hours after the civic body arrived at the spot along with the Delhi Police.Local residents of Shaheen Bagh Monday stood in front of a bulldozer that arrived to carry out an anti-encroachment drive and shouted slogans. Yasir Imam, a local resident, said that people had gathered against the “targeted demolitions”.

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.